Musiktheaterkollektiv Hauen & Stechen: Rotz – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Musiktheaterkollektiv Hauen & Stechen:
Rotz
Fidelio – A German Nightmare in Four Parts. Part 2: Rotz
Musical Theater
In order to free her politically persecuted spouse from prison, Leonore works undercover as the prison guard Fidelio. But not only do the prisoners live dangerously but so does the prison personal: in a convoluted purgatory of torture and bureaucracy they are torn between career, fear and hope for personal luck, while the promised symphonic justice of the utopian republic seems to be a long time coming. Instead of fidelity and a textbook humanism, Leonore is awaited by a storm of black-snot-gold. Fidelio – A German Nightmare in four parts, a lesbian love story and grand desire for a fight.
In ЯOTZ, the second part of the series, Beethoven’s rescue opera drapes itself in red robes in order to hoodwink the corpses out of the dungeon of German idealism. Red is the blood of the rulers, red are the ankles of the righteous and the glowing irons that press themselves into her flesh. Red is the setting sun and the beginning of the celebration filled with kisses and scuffles perhaps even up until revolution. After just how many bottles does the belief in the state of law subside? After how many bottles do we throw open the doors of the prisons?
BY AND WITH Musiktheaterkollektiv HAUEN•UND•STECHEN DIRECTOR Julia Lwowski DRAMATURG Maria Buzhor STAGE DESIGNER Romy Springsguth COSTUME DESIGNER Ingibjörg Jara Sigurðardóttir VIDEO Martin Mallon SOPRANO Angela Braun ACTORS Gina Lisa Maiwald, Wieland Schönfelder VIOLA Louis Bona PERCUSSION Evdoxia Filippou PIANO/ORGAN Roman Lemberg PERFORMANCE Geoffroy Grison, Tatjana Moutchnik ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Marie Roth SCENOGRAPHY ASSISTANT Charlotta Hench ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER Jorinde Sturm
Produced by Musiktheaterkollektiv HAUEN•UND•STECHEN in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Fonds Doppelpass of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and 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.