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Shockheaded Peter is a 1998 musical using the popular German children's book Struwwelpeter (1845) by Heinrich Hoffmann as its basis.
Created by Julian Bleach, Anthony Cairns, Julian Crouch, Graeme Gilmour, Tamzin Griffin, Jo Pocock, Phelim McDermott, Michael Morris and The Tiger Lillies (Martyn Jacques, Adrian Huge and Adrian Stout) the production combines elements of pantomime and puppetry with musical versions of the poems with the songs generally following the text but with a somewhat darker tone. Whereas the children in the poems only sometimes die, in the musical they all do. Commissioned by the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds and the Lyric Hammersmith in West London, the show debuted in 1998 in Leeds before moving to London and subsequently to world tours.




Productions


1998 West Yorkshire Playhouse
1999 New Victory Theater
1999 Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater
2000 American Conservatory Theater San Francisco
2001 Athenaeum Theatre Chicago
2004 Lyric Hammersmith
2005 Little Shubert Theatre
2006 ETA Hoffmann Theater Bamberg
2008 Theater Krefeld und Mönchengladbach
2008 die SCHOTTE. Erfurt
2009 Burgtheater
2010 Grillo-Theater Essen
2011 Theater Heidelberg
2013 Det Norske Teatret
2013 Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall
2014 Staatstheater Cottbus
2015 Company One
2015 Green Valley Theatre Company
2015 Schauspiel Hannover
2016 Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica
2017 Cygnet Theatre, San Diego
2017 Black Button Eyes Productions, Chicago
2019 Utah State University
2021 Jobsite Theater, Tampa
2021 New Moon Theatre, Memphis
2022 Staatstheater Meiningen
2024 Scala Wien




Awards and nominations


Awards

1998 Barclays/TMA Best Director Award
1999 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Design
2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment
2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Martyn Jacques)
Nominations

1999 South Bank Show Award Theatre
2000 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience
2000 Drama Desk Award for Best Set Design for a Musical
2000 Drama Desk Award for Best Costume Design
2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director
2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design
2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design




References






Further reading


Zipes, Jack David (Summer 2000). "The Perverse Delight of Shockheaded Peter". Theater. 30 (2): 129–143. doi:10.1215/01610775-30-2-129. ISSN 0161-0775.




External links


Shockheaded Peter New York City at the Wayback Machine (archived February 3, 2005)
​Shockheaded Peter​ (1999 production) at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
​Shockheaded Peter​ (2005 production) at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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