valbella

a chalet in the mountains, a surprise party, a group of privileged zurich teenagers and a snowstorm complete with avalanche and a cut-off path down to the valley... these are the ingredients for the ultimate disaster story.

in 1954, nobel prize winner william golding wrote his bestseller "lord of the flies". in it, a group of children survive a plane crash and from then on have to find their way on a small south sea island. the collapse of the civilized order of the adults leads to a massacre. "lord of the flies" is an evergreen, a story that can be rediscovered in countless variations on netflix, in hollywood or on the theater stages of this world. who doesn't enjoy listening to a nerve-wracking story of decline and impending catastrophe? that's what the ag theater rämibühl and neumarkt thought. exactly 70 years after its publication, they have taken on the classic and asked whether and how the story of the loss of civilization could happen here in beautiful switzerland. the result is "valbella", the ultimate zurich-style disaster story.