"The one who knows, can", says the miller. The miller's principle is the number twelve. The mill runs with twelve miller's boys. If there is one missing or one too many, the work comes to a halt. In twelve midnight-blue chests, the audience is invited for a ride through the Black Mill and the dark machinery of the theatre, past the box with the seven locks that hides the miller’s magic book. Past twelve ravens who were still apprentices in daylight, past magical music. The ritualistic language of the adaptation forms a magic spell beyond good and evil which creates an eerie pull. Watching the ballet of boxes from the outside is just as exciting and mesmerising as the ride in the chest is a spectacular, immersive theatrical experience. Between relaxed attention and laid-back concentration, a world is created in which magic suddenly seems possible.

In Die Schwarze Mühle (The Black Mill), for people aged 12 and older, Showcase Beat Le Mot refer mainly to the original Sorbian saga which also is the main source for Otfried Preußler‘s novel Krabat.

Idea, realisation: Showcase Beat Le Mot / Music: Die Figur (Barbara Morgenstern, Mike Majkowski, Viola Bornmann) / Costume design: Clemens Leander / Illusion (design, training): Manuel Muerte / Artistic Collaboration: Christopher-Felix Hahn / Guests: Radwan Alsulaiman, Arne Schimmel / Technical director: Joscha Eckert / Production Management: Olaf Nachtwey

The Black Mill is a production by Showcase Beat Le Mot with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin (2020), the reprise is supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of Neustart Kultur.
The guest performance is supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Theatre Guest Performance Fund, sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the federal states.