Are you Asleep, my Darling? (2019)
Fotos Simona Mele
Music by G. Mahler, O. Schoeck, R. StraussTexts by J. W. Goethe, C. F. Meyer, R. W. Fassbinder, B. Brecht, J. von Eichendorff and many moreWhat makes a mother suffocate her child? The examination of this psychogram provides sufficient material for a multi-faceted evening. The portrayed mental state is exemplary for the confrontation with a dilemma. An unsolvable inner conflict is shown, which leads to social exclusion and ostracism. This unbearable situation drives the piece forward and the figure into madness. The location symbolically stands for the oppressive and hopeless emotional state of a desperate woman and enables the audience to experience it too. Location, music and text contribute to the portrayal of existential distress: an oppressive spatial situation combined with sophisticated, beautiful music that stands in sharp contrast to the brutal texts.Various narrative levels, the interplay between a first-person perspective and an auctorial position, underscore madness and dissension.
In an obscure basement, Zurich
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