Musiktheaterkollektiv Hauen & Stechen: Fidelio - Ein deutscher Albtraum in vier Folgen: Gold – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Musiktheaterkollektiv Hauen & Stechen:
Fidelio - Ein deutscher Albtraum in vier Folgen: Gold
It has been seven years now that this freedom fighter has been imprisoned without being charged. But his wife is keeping the fight for their political agenda alive and is fighting from the inside as the prison guard Fidelio. The revolution is up for purchase and the movement needs money. Beethoven already knew this, although he admittedly didn’t finance an underground movement but was trapped in a web of capitalist-bourgeois expectations. In Gold, the third episode of the four-part Fidelio series, they are taking stock! How and with what can the revolution be funded?
BY AND WITH Musiktheaterkollektiv HAUEN•UND•STECHEN
Gold is a production by Musiktheaterkollektiv HAUEN•UND•STECHEN in coproduction with BAM! – Berliner Festival für aktuelles Musiktheater and SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Fonds Doppelpass der Kulturstiftung des Bundes and the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa – Spartenoffene Förderung. Medienpartner: taz.die tageszeitung
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.