Younger brothers get on your nerves. They make a lot of noise, are always playing games by their own rules – and, as if that weren’t enough, are now crowding you out of Mum’s bed. Hoshe is getting too big and anyway, and Elli is old enough to sleep in the children’s room on her own. But she’s not happy about it. What’s to say that, when the light’s out, things won’t begin to shift and change shape instead of staying the way they are? Because one night Elli finds herself in the Octopus Lady’s house, where the walls, floor and door knob come alive. She meets her goldfish, Mr Puddles, again and figures out in the end that, despite all her ink and suckers and tentacles, the Lady too is beset by fears that she can only overcome with Elli’s help.

Spotlight
OCTOPUS LADY, a work of musical theatre for children aged 5 and over and commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, was written by composer Sidney Corbett and his daughter, librettist Chiara Corbett. It is the latest piece in the successful series of new works of musical theatre for children and teenagers that receive their world premiere in the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.