Liina Magnea: What’s a Mob to a King (Plot-twist Redemption) – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Liina Magnea: What’s a Mob to a King (Plot-twist Redemption)
When life is work, it is no longer work. It has become labor in the form of self-sacrifice, for the nation, the cause, the company. But the promises that were supposed to justify it are dissolving. For what exactly, nobody quite knows anymore. Only the sacrifice remains.
What's a Mob to a King (plot-twist redemption) traces how ideology enters the body and heroism unravels. In an era of new honesty, where injustices no longer need to be concealed, Liina Magnea asks what still seduces us. Because what seduces is always, in part, aesthetic. Even the villain. Perhaps especially him.
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Early boarding
If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.
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Choreography, performance, text: Liina Magnea
Performance: Noah Rees, Konstantin Wloch
Composer, text: Hjörtur Hjörleifsson
Light, stage: Astrid K. Nylander
Costume: Anna Philippa Müller
Costume assistant: Anna Melnikova
A production by Liina Magnea in co-production with Sophiensæle. Supported by The Swedish Art Council and Icelandic Art Center. Never Work – International Performance Festival is a festival by Sophiensæle, supported by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). Sophiensæle is supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Liina Magneais a Berlin based artist working across performance, music, choreography and film. Her practice is driven by a fascination with the immaterial Gesamtkunstwerk, combining disciplines into fluid works that reflect the fragmented logic of the digital age. Drawing on phenomena such as doomscrolling, she explores identity, psychological fragility, and compulsive behavior. In her performances, Magnea inhabits charged figures such as police officers, soldiers or school shooters, which she dismantles through an interplay of tragedy and absurdity. Her work moves between theatricality and collapse, asking how constructed realities can function as coping mechanisms in times of instability.
Her work has been presented at Volksbühne Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, MUDAM Luxembourg, MDT Stockholm, Centrale di Fies and Steirischer Herbst among others.