The Call of Water tells the story of a journey in which the audience is taken by performers from Germany and South Africa using puppets handmade in Cape Town. Through a fascinating and poetic interweaving of play styles, languages and perspectives, a global picture of the problem of water scarcity emerges that allows one to look at a global problem from a different point of view.
While the vital element has shaped urban architecture and history in Augsburg for centuries and is available in abundance, Cape Town has suffered from a drought in recent years. The water-saving consequences drawn from this, a shortage which the Cape has overcome, are groundbreaking for the handling of this valuable resource in the 21st century - also for Europe.
Thus, in this play, the world-famous fountain figures of the Augustus Fountain from Augsburg meet Inkomo Yamanzi (the cow that brings water) and Roman deities meet ancestor worship. What at first glance could hardly be more different, on closer inspection perhaps proves to be less of a contrast than an affinity of essence.
