Breisach Youth Theater: "Kalif Storch" (Caliph Stork)

**An Oriental Fairy Tale Freely Adapted from Wilhelm Hauff Stage Adaptation**: Sybille Denker & Peter W. Hermanns **Director**: Sybille Denker **"Caliph Stork"** The Caliph’s son is soon to take over the reins of government. But the Grand Vizier Mansor wants to become Caliph himself instead of the Caliph. Through cunning, he manages to lure the prince into an exciting adventure: With the help of a magic powder, the Caliph’s son and his best friend are transformed into storks. They can even understand the language of animals! Amused beyond measure, they burst into roaring laughter, thereby breaking the only rule of magic: they must not laugh while in animal form. And just like that, the magic word for the reversal is forgotten. Must the two friends now remain storks forever? The ring on a stork’s leg reveals to Aisha, a servant of the Caliph’s wife, that it is actually the transformed prince. Together with her friends, she sets off to find the great wizard Abu Marabu. But no one has ever seen the great wizard. Will Aisha succeed in finding the great wizard? And will Abu Marabu reveal the magic word for the transformation back? The story of Caliph Stork—a humorous, extremely exciting story for the whole family.