Covered in blood, he returns to the beer garden. A witness remarks he has blood on his shirt. This production is memorable for the quality of its music-making. Margaret Medlyn as Marie sings the first lullaby and the countervailing New Testament reading of act three sweetly and movingly. She has just the right balance of vulnerability and raunchiness.
Summers performs the title role with touching clarity of expression and mood.
While he successfully establishes a Kaspar Hauser naivety, I don't think he catches the character's brute animal physicality or the visionary rebel clawing at the spider's web of reality. The Age Company Ltd 2000. Any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited.