THE MAGICAL TRAVEL CARD
Musical theater about loving and missing
When Gerda missed her grandfather, she ran all the way to him. Or when he missed her. Then they played rain and thunder and ice cream in the grass, snow and sunflowers and soft ice cream. They played the nights dark and the dreams bright.
But one day it became quiet. Completely quiet. The wind stopped howling, the curtain stopped flapping, and the birds fell silent in a whistle. Grandfather’s chair stood in its place, but where he should have been, there was now a hole – an empty grandfather-shaped hole. Gerda had just turned 8 the day her grandfather died. With him, the joy and music had disappeared. Until the day the magical travel card appeared.
How do we talk about death with children?
Loss can be experienced differently, and it can be difficult to find the right words. The National Association Liv&Død works to start a good conversation about death, and how it can both be understood and articulated at a child’s level. Click here to get more knowledge.
From 6-11 years
Tour Dates April - May 2026
Duration 45 min.
Contact tour-coordinator
Henriette Kudsk
+45 71 99 88 77
henriette@zebu.nu
TOUR SPECS
Price for performance | 14.000 (excl. VAT) |
Audience capacity | 100 |
Height | 400 cm |
Length | 1400 cm |
Depth | 800 cm |
Including audience | Yes |
Power | 400 V (16A) |
Set up time | 150 min. |
Tear down time | 90 min. |
Blackout | Yes |
HOW DO WE TALK TO CHILDREN ABOUT DEATH?
Listen in when director Signe Kærup Dahl and development consultant Nanna Widding from the National Association Liv&Død talk about putting grief at the level of children.
PURCHASE OF WORKSHOP
Purchasing a workshop includes an introduction before the performance and a subsequent workshop with one of ZeBU’s skilled theatre educators. The workshop typically lasts 1,5 hours and costs DKK 2,200. This is agreed directly with ZeBU. Contact Henriette Kudsk at henriette@zebu.nu or phone 71 99 88 77.




CREDITS
Co-production | Signe Kærup Dahl and ZeBU |
Cast | Nanna Eide (actress), Jonas Munck Hansen (musician), Astrid Kjær Jensen (puppeteer) |
Director | Signe Kærup Dahl |
Writer | Inge Duelund |
Composer | Søren Dahl Jeppesen |
Scenographer | Jonathan Hjorth |
Puppeteer | Katrine Karlsen |
Costume designer | Julie Amalie Svensson |
Lighting designer | Malte Hauge |
Choreographer consultant | Loa Carlslund |
Production manager | Nicole Johansen |
Dramaturg | Anne Nymark |
Technician | Katja Andreassen |
Builds | Nicolai Micallef, Steen Molls Rasmussen, Guido Liebgen |
Photographer | Emilia Therese |
Videographer | Embla Egelund Simonsen |
Special thanks | Stine Bjerregaard |
»…ON THE WAY HOME IN THE METRO, MY 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER VIOLA SAID: “I WANT SUCH A CLIPBOARD”.
ACTUALLY, I DO TOO.«
SUPPORTERS
Statens Kunstfond |
Wilhelm Hansen Fonden |
Koda Dramatik |