Musiktheaterkollektiv Hauen & Stechen: Die Todesqualle oder wer flüstert, der lügt #1 – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Musiktheaterkollektiv Hauen & Stechen:
Die Todesqualle oder wer flüstert, der lügt #1
A game of seduction, a life and death game – the tyrant Turandot is allowed to do anything, except change the rules of the game. Or can she? If she could only guess her level of commitment. Is death the answer to the riddle or is freedom possible? In the first of the three Turandot performances the music theater collective HAUEN•UND•STECHEN lets out the cries of the princess several times in the evening and uses the confusion to secure the best seats. Rien ne va plus!
CONCEPT Musiktheaterkollektiv HAUEN UND STECHEN Direction Franziska Kronfoth, Julia Lwowski MIS-EN-SCÈNE Christina Schmitt COSTUME Günter Lemke DRAMATURGy Maria Buzhor, Johanna Ziemer MUSICAL Direction Roman Lemberg PERCUSSION Hauke Renken PERFORMANCE Toni Jessen, Gina-Lisa Maiwald, Maria Buzhor, Franziska Kronfoth BARITON David RistauAssistance Dramaturgy Wieland Lemke assistance MIS-EN-SCÈNE Jana Donis
Produced by the Musiktheaterkollektiv HAUEN•UND•STECHEN in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Fonds Doppelpass der Kulturstiftung des Bundes. media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
Photo © Thilo Mössner
Hauen & Stechen was founded as a laboratory for moving, cross-border, and cross-genre musical theater. It initially worked in the cellars of Galerina Steiner, where the collective attracted attention with a special series of performances: a staging course was performed for different groups on one evening until they were completely exhausted. Here it developed its style, which blends influences from opera, visual arts and film with performative elements to create an idiosyncratic and opulent theatrical language. The pieces deliberately leave space for impulses and interaction with the audience and take place in an intensely intimate setting.