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Frederick

Junges Theater Werkstatt, Theater Stage Design

Frederick is a theater play performed at the Junges Theater Werkstatt in Ingolstadt, managed by Julia Mayr and focused on programming for young audiences and families. The play is based on Leo Lionni’s 1967 children’s book Frederick, illustrating the power of community, imagination, and hope. It tells the story of a group of field mice preparing for winter by gathering food—except Frederick, who instead collects sun rays and the colors of the world for the cold season.

OFICINAA was commissioned by the play director and actress Olivia Went to develop the stage concept and the design, building it in cooperation with the technical team at the Theater Ingolstadt. The stage design reflects the passage of time and the rhythm of the seasons, as the mice gather the food in the meadows of spring.

The changing seasons are depicted through four distinct levels at varying heights, connected by a continuous ramp that evokes the stone wall where the mice reside. This design adds depth and volume to the stage, while also creating a narrative space through which the character of Leo Lionni—portrayed by actor Benjamin Dami-Yamamoto—journeys during the transitions of the seasons. The play culminates in winter, at the highest point of the ramp sequence, where Frederick brings to life the vibrant colors of the seasons he have gathered.

The stage and all props have been crafted from woolen felt in various primary colors, evoking simplicity, softness, and warmth—all illuminated by a suspended golden-sun.

Program: Theater Stage Design


Client: Junges Theater Werkstatt, Stadttheater Ingolstadt
Date: September-Dezember 2019

Team: Silvia Benedito, Larissa Belcic, Marion Eisenmann (illustrator)