Comments - The little earth bird

... Even if the earthy mole mother - in a wonderful contrast here Stefan Ferencz - simply checks it off. A mole who wants to fly? What a crap. We have shovels. Period off. But this adorable mole child is not to be irritated. From nothing and nobody. Then stop an earth bird. It's a masterpiece that Pohyb's and company have staged there. Children's theater to take off. Lively and cheerful. That's how the little mole is on the go, asking his way through and meeting aviators and non-aviators who give him his idea - no! it's his vision - wanting to finish speaking. Intoxicating how Stefan Ferencz captures the essence, the typical of the animals, which he portrays in a clownish, moving and mimic perfect way. He chews the cud as if he would do it in real life, literally acts like a strutting stork or behaves like an owl, as if he were about to float through the forest himself. You can confidently take advice from this owl - which the little mole does as well. And when Maike Jansen lets him hear the wind, the spectators hear him too - and when he flies, everyone knows that flying gets you much further than airplanes! C. Roeder, Plastic Theater Hobbit

EPPELHEIM. The little mole had only one goal: "I want to fly!" He repeated this sentence over and over again. His mother shook her head in incomprehension and brought her offspring back to earth with clear words: "We live underground - we can't fly!" But the little earthling was not so easily dissuaded from his idea. When he stuck his nose out of his molehill, he looked enviously at the butterflies and paper airplanes that fluttered merrily through the air above his head. Then the little mole made a decision: he really wanted to become an “earth bird”. He immediately began flying exercises. But that didn't quite work. So he went on his way and asked various animals how it is with flying. He meets aviators and non-aviators and finally got the crucial tip on how flying could also work with moles. The story about longing and fantasy that the mobile children's theater “Pohyb's and Co.” brought to the city library for children aged four and over was really delightful. The play "Der kleine Erdvogel" by Oliver Scherz and Eva Muggenthaler was about the power of dreams and was both a poetic and funny story about longings, desires, goals and the power of imagination. The two actors Maike Jansen and Stefan Ferencz knew how to cast a spell over young and old in the blink of an eye. The two have been together as an acting duo since 2004 and are a well-established team. They are touring in Germany and abroad with their pieces. Her goal is to make theater with simple means and the art of acting and to stimulate the imagination of her audience with her stories. The two slip into their roles wholeheartedly. When Maike Jansen practices flying with a childlike voice and squeaky sounds as a mole child, the audience melts away. And when Stefan Ferencz, who also plays the strict mother mole, transforms himself into a chewing cow or into another animal, the audience is full of enthusiasm and admiration for this wonderful transformation and performance. Schwetzingen newspaper (sge)

"Congenial in form and sign language..." (Idstein) A bird? A mole? An earth bird? Definitely a mole child who has his own ideas and dreams about life and his own way of being and thus the ability to move. It is laughed at and not taken seriously by those around it because it thinks it wants to and is able to fly. But it sticks to what it longs for and tries to implement it with all the means at its disposal. Congenial in form and sign language, realized figuratively and in pantomime by Maike Jansen and Stefan Ferencz, the Pohyb's and the like. The finest children's theater that impresses children and adults alike and has a lasting effect with its images. C. Barthels, Idstein

GUSTAVSBURG. Children have been enthralled by recent performances of The Little Earth Bird. The theater duo “Pohyb's und Konorte” made three guest appearances in the Burglichtspiele. The mole manages the actually impossible ... The actors, pantomimes and clowns Stephan Ferencz and Maike Jansen from the mobile theater "Pohybs und Konsorten" brought the story by Oliver Scherz and Eva Muggenthaler full of wit and poetry to Gustavsburg in a total of three performances. It's about a little mole (Maike Jansen) who doesn't want to see that he can't fly. Against the resistance of Mama Mole (Stephan Ferencz) and against the advice of the many other animals in the meadow, the little mole finally achieves the impossible. A large box that can be opened to the front - that's all Stephan Ferencz and Maike Jansen need for a performance of "The Little Earth Bird". The rest is made up of noises, gestures, looks, simply playing the flute and involving the audience. They always react to cheeky remarks from their young audience. But as a rule, the boys and girls are already spellbound by the performance anyway - and who wants to tell children to be quiet? But the adults also enjoyed the adventures of the little earth bird. The parable about the realization of dreams and about what imagination can do always makes you smile. Of course there is a lot of childishness in Stephan Ferencz and Maike Jansen, who stumble across the stage, who twist their faces into grimaces and who sometimes just don't understand the world - just like children sometimes do. Rüsselsheimer Eche (rke)

"Abracadabra", You can now fly Weinheim. At the children's theater of the IG Waid, "The Little Earth Bird" was performed by pohyb's and consorts. This play is not yet as well known as Gruffalo, Frederick, Friends or Sams, which the two actors, Maike Jansen and Stefan Ferencz, brought to the stage in previous years. But again, the two children and parents were enthusiastic. The idea of the little mole, who absolutely wants to learn to fly, was translated into dance, pantomime and puns. On his journey to learn to fly he encountered the smacking cow, the proud rooster and the wise owl, whose typical character traits were portrayed effectively with minimal resources. The children cheered with heckling. And when a little girl kept calling out to him "Abracadabra, you can fly", everyone knew: the little mole was now a bird of the earth and would be able to use his imagination to fly above the clouds. Rhein-Neckar newspaper

Children's theater to take off Maike Jansen and Stefan Ferencz tell an encouraging story about dreams, goals and the power of your own imagination with the "little earth bird" on Saturday in the Kulturhaus. Kehl: Moles actually live underground and cannot fly at all. But this circumstance doesn't keep the little mole, who Maike Jansen and Stefan Ferencz from the mobile theater "pohyb's und kon sorten" present on the stage on Saturday afternoon in the Kulturhaus in Kehl, from his dreams. "I want to fly" he says and gets it into his head to become an "earth bird". His assigned place Maike Jansen and Stefan Ferencz tell a wonderfully poetic and witty story about an animal protagonist who absolutely does not want to put up with spending his whole life digging through his tunnels deep under the earth. The story for children aged three and over by Oliver Scherz and Eva Muggenthaler, published in 2013 as a picture book, is primarily about the power of fantasy and the longing to be able to use it to cast off the shackles of one's own existence. Maike Jansen and Stefan Ferencz bring the story to the stage with simple means and a wonderfully clownesque gesture. The two actors, who used to belong to the ensemble of the pantomime mask theater "Family Flöz", which Stefan co-founded at the time, convince with an impressive body language that always allows new characters to emerge. The little velvety fellow, played by Maike Jansen with great lightness and grace, digs through to the surface of the earth and listens to the birds. He tries to catch a butterfly and stands in amazement in front of the flowers, which are simply eaten by a large cow. She doesn't understand why the little mole wants to fly. She chews her grass and splashes a cake over which two flies fight. While roaming around, the little mole also meets a rooster, which jumps wildly from the dung heap and despite its wings doesn't really take off into the clouds. Inadequate equipment The mole eventually has to realize that its shovels are good for digging and digging in the earth, but ultimately not good for flying. But he discovers the power of imagination, which creates images in his head and allows the little mole to climb into the clouds, trusting in his own dreams. With their performance, which has been postponed several times due to Corona, Jansen and Ferencz tie in with their first guest performance in Kehl a few years ago and enchant their young and old audience with an intensive hour. With this amusing spectacle they also put the end of the urban family series "Schau mal!" Kehler Zeitung/Mittelbadische Presse from 05/09/22 by Jürgen Haberer