Notre-Dame - A True Story

A dream play based on Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"

Outside the gates of Notre-Dame, a young Sinti girl sells souvenirs; behind the cathedral walls, a priest lives in his own world. During a solar eclipse lasting only seconds, both drift into dreams of times five hundred years past and enact a story of love and death - for in our dreams live the stories of our blood, and blood is a river into the past.

A vain captain who loves only himself. A priest who denies love. A creature no one wishes to love, and a woman seemingly made only for love. All go astray because there appears to be no other path for them - only a narrow thread of love winds through time, which we often can only touch in dreams.

Play: Virginia and Stefan P. Maatz / Schlitz
Concept and direction: Karl Huck / Hiddensee
Set and characters: Barbara and Günter Weinhold / Berlin
Artistic collaboration: Kay Zeisberg / Leipzig & Pierre Sanoussi - Bliss / Berlin

A production by Theater con Cuore, Schlitz - from age 16, duration approximately 70 minutes.