French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier is helping to develop the new show at Berlin’s Friedrichstadt-Palast. The 71-year-old had already designed costumes for a previous production. This time he is to take on the role of visual design director, as a spokeswoman for the theater announced on Thursday. This means that he is responsible for costume and stage design together with others. The show, titled “Falling | In Love,” has a production budget of €14 million and is scheduled to premiere on September 21.
The theater on Berlin’s Friedrichstraße is known for its glittering revues. The new show is said to be about a character named You. In search of love, you are rejected and only want to sink into the ground. “The gray asphalt of civilization crumbles under his feet,” it said. You fall into another reality and see in the hidden garden of love what he has never seen before. The story is based on the Englishman’s poem “The Garden of Love”. William Blake (1757-1827) inspired.(dpa)