Das Verlobungsfest im Feenreiche von Johann Nestroy

[...] It is also interesting how he dealt with theater traditions even in the revolutionary period of the pre-March period and how he worked with a variety of elements in this play. Nestroy describes social breaks. And there have been and still are in Japan. The collision of all these breaks should be manifested in the performance: the form of the magic game that Nestroy chose for his play has structure and content-related facets similar to the classic Kabuki theater […]
Ulrike Ottinger in an interview with Mathias Grilj