Hendrik Quast:
Mohrle – Eine Fabel
Mohrle – Eine Fabel
Mohrle is a cat that can cry. He’s not using his current prey, a mouse, for a snack nor for a toy. Instead the human-like cat is dabbling with techniques to slow down the natural decaying process and oblivion. Mohrle is a solo performance that combines stage and musical singing with a live stuffing and mounting of a mouse – from the skinning to the stuffing all the way to the staged arrangement. An obvious reconstruction of cuteness with furry examples.
CONCEPT, TEXT, SINGING Hendrik Quast DRAMATURGY, LIGHT DESIGN Maika Knoblich COSTUMES AND MASKS Christina Neuss SINGING coaching Dorothee Dalg ASSISTANT DIRECTION Philipp Urrutia SOUND Milena Kipfmüller DESIGN MOON Julia Viebranz, Kenneth Wiatrek
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With a processual concept of theater,Hendrik Quast devotes himself to performing techniques such as ventriloquism, pantomime or musical singing and explores the dissolution of boundaries in entertainment culture. He allows these to collide with everyday practices, crafts and cultural techniques such as taxidermy, funeral floristry or nail design. In these settings, Quast appears as an exaggerated alter ego that follows its own language foils, logics of action and necessities of action. The audience is challenged by subversive comedy to critically relate to marginalised topics such as social origin and (precarious) forms of work, attributions of illness/health and the relationship between nature/culture. Born in Celle in 1985, the queer action and performance artist studied at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen. He has been working as a solo artist and in the performance duo Quast & Knoblich since 2009. His performances have been realised with institutions such as Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt am Main), Gessnerallee (Zurich), FFT Düsseldorf, Theater Rampe (Stuttgart), Sophiensæle (Berlin) and Kampnagel (Hamburg). His works have been shown at international performance and art festivals such as Impulse Theater Festival, steirischer herbst, Festival a/d Werf (Utrecht) and International Summer Festival Kampnagel (Hamburg). He adapted several theater works as radio plays for WDR Cologne (including Nagelneu, 2021, Radio Play of the Month Year 2021 German Academy for the Performing Arts). In 2022 he is a fellow at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan. Since 2023 Quast is an artistic PhD candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts and is doing a PhD on humour and illness in the performative arts in cooperation with Zurich University of the Arts.
www.hendrikquast.de