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Mummenschanz
50 Years

Sat Nov 2 | 3PM

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For its anniversary production – aptly titled “50 Years” – MUMMENSCHANZ will be taking audiences on a journey filled with imagination and poetry, putting on the most beloved sketches from the foundation’s repertoire over the past five decades. To mark the anniversary, co-founder Floriana Frassetto has devised a production that will take the public on a 50-year journey through the fascinating world of MUMMENSCHANZ. It will take a look back at the most popular, most successful productions of years gone by, featuring legendary characters such as the Clay Masks and the Toilet Paper Faces. The show will also see appearances by the delicate, air-filled Giants, the Pipe Creature and plenty of other bizarre objects and shapes brought to life by the troupe. The production will also include sketches featuring surprising new forms and characters that capture the signature MUMMENSCHANZ spirit. This fantastic journey through the world of MUMMENSCHANZ is lively, humorous, full of affection and brimming with imagination.

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About the cast

Floriana Frassetto

Floriana Frassetto (Swiss), studied at Academia Alessandro Fersen in Rome from 1967 to 1969. She completed her training as an actress while attending a school for mime and acrobatics at Roy Bosier‘s Teatro Studio. She then worked with the company of Roy Bosier in several school productions that toured Italy. The idea of founding MUMMENSCHANZ resulted from meeting, in late 1970, Andres Bossard and Bernie Schürch – two young Swiss clowns called “Before and Lost” that performed a partially spoken show. Floriana became the third member of the new company in 1972 and together they co-created the repertoire of MUMMENSCHANZ, converting the spoken numbers to masked visuals. Floriana has performed on tour worldwide for the last 47 years. She feels herself an artisan of fantasy and has always been motivated to construct new shapes along with Bernie. Since Bernie’s departure in 2012 she has been tormented by the challenge of creating a new show, which she has now done with plenty of new ideas. That has been possible thanks to the collaboration with Tina Kronis and Richard Alger. Other notable experiences include the choreography and the costumes for Giancarlo Sbragia’s Faust and André Heller‘s musical Body and Soul, and an artistic collaboration with Isabelle Baudet for the children musical Oliver Twist in Lausanne (Switzerland). She is the artistic director of MUMMENSCHANZ

Tess Burla

Tess Burla was born in 1981 and grew up in Murten, Switzerland. After completing her studies in psychomotor therapy, she trained as a dancer in Barcelona and Berlin. In 2009, she completed a master’s in dance education at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). She has been a member of Cie Chapeau (and formerly Paula fliegt) since 2015. She gained experience working with Marcel Leemann, and as part of Brigitta Schrepferʼs Somafon, human kinetics movements arts, and Collectif de Marchepied. Burla works as a freelance dancer and is a founding member of cie deux plus. In addition to dance performances in collaboration with live musicians (Simone Abplanalp and Ursula Hofmann), she also made an appearance as part of the clown duo Nasva and Ravu in 2018. Her journey with MUMMENSCHANZ began in 2019.

Christa Barrett

Christa Barrett (Swiss), was born in Fribourg in 1990. At the age of 17, she joined the Zirkus Chnopf and the Cirque de Loin for three years. Following this, she entered the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Verscio, Switzerland. During her studies, she won the physical theater studentship award from Migros Kulturprozent twice. In 2014 she received her Bachelor’s in Physical Theater. Since then, Christa has worked with different theater companies, including „Poyo Furioso“ directed by Hermes Gaido, „Fiorenza Ensemble“ directed by Eveline Ratering and „Commedia Origen Festival“ directed by Fabrizio Pestilli. Since summer 2016 Christa has been a member of the MUMMENSCHANZ company.

Oliver Pfulg

Oliver Pfulg grew up in Hombrechtikon/ZH. After his initial education as a draughtsman he attended the physical theatre school „Comart“ in Zürich for three years, where he graduated in 2010. Since then he has had different engagements (a. o Opera House Zürich, flowingdancecompany, MärliMusicalTheater). Oliver is also a founder member of the street theatre group „Paula fliegt“. 2015 he created together with Lena Wälly an own play „aprpops“. Since May 2015 Oliver is a member of the MUMMENSCHANZ company.

Samuel Müller

Samuel Müller (1986) grew up in Ticino and in Bern. 2004-2007 he obtained a Bachelor in Physical Theatre at the “Accademia Teatro Dimitri” SUPSI in Verscio. In 2010 he starts his Master studies at the “Accademia Teatro Dimitri”, which he finishes with his Master thesis “Backwoodsman”. In 2014 he shows his play at the International Theatre Festival of Theatre Schools in Rome, winning the ‘Gemini d’oro’ for best performer. Since 2014 he has been touring with the family project “Dimitrigenerations” with Famiglia Dimitri. He performed in various theater and opera productions in Italy and abroad. In 2022/2203 he plays in the play “Block” by the theater Madame Bissegger. Samuel has been a member of MUMMENSCHANZ since 2023.

Eric Sauge

Eric Sauge (Swiss) is the Technical Director of the company. With more than 10 years of experience in the entertainment business, he now specializes in lighting and machinery effects. Employment by large organizations provided him with world-wide travel. Through his experience and many trips abroad he acquired solid knowledge in technical and team management. Back in Switzerland he continued to train in the field of lighting for events such as theater and television, in which he mainly occupied the roles of console operator and project manager. In 2014 he met MUMMENSCHANZ in Lausanne, and wishing to return to the theatre scene, he joined them as their Technical Director.