Waren/Rüdesheim (dpa/lhe) – A driver from Hesse who was misguided by his navigation system led to the cancellation of a theater performance in the Mecklenburg Lake District. The man wanted to go to a hotel in Waren an der Müritz, but drove to the nearby open-air stage at the time of the performance, as the director of the Müritz saga, Nils Düwell, said on Friday. “Fortunately, the performance was interrupted because of a rain shower, so that nobody was harmed.”
The sandy Müritz Saga stage with medieval buildings is located in a public park, where there are also hotels. The driver had followed the sat nav, but pushed aside a warning beacon from the theater makers and drove his car to the brightly lit theater grounds instead of to the hotel car park.
“I told him he should stay where the car was, but the man drove on, turned around and got stuck,” said Düwell. The car was lying on the underbody, a towing company was no longer available. The performance then had to be canceled even though the rain had stopped. Now the vehicle with the RÜD license plate for the Rheingau-Taunus district is to be recovered on Friday.
The approximately 300 spectators took the incident with humor, as Düwell said. You are invited to watch the end at the next performances.
The play “Des Teufel’s Henchmen” is about the terror spread in Mecklenburg by marauding mercenaries and robbers in the Thirty Years’ War around 1640. Directed by Düwell, a masked avenger ensures that peace is restored at the end.
