ANIMAL
TicketsI have tried to cut down on the breastfeeding, for you to be okay, if I end up in detention.
ANIMAL is a mother’s internal conversation with her child. A story about choosing to keep a child with Downs syndrom, “a useless being” in a world obsessed with efficiency and growth. It is the acclaimed debut novel by Alexandra Molthe Johansen transformed into brutal and poetic music theatre with an actor and three classical singers.
It begins during birth, an opening into war. An opening that cannot be closed. With birth and parenthood the cruelty of both humans and nature roll over the woman. A symphony of thoughts plays out in the meeting between acting and classical singing. Scenarios of fear and love declarations exist side by side in a scenography where shapes, walls, and materials constantly change. The visual inspiration comes from both modern wellness and baroque paintings of gracefully exhibited rotten fruit. Here a mother introduces her little child to the world. How is it to live and have children right now while the signs of a collapse begin to appear? Who and what, in our current society, owns the right to protection?
ANIMAL is a both brutal and poetic radicalization piece, a collective mourning ritual, a mothers revival created by the German director Lara Tacke with new composed music by Kirstine Fogh Vindelev and scenography by Freya Sif Hestnes. Alexandra Moltke Johansen’s debut novel is the steppingstone and the story is told by actress Signe Egholm Olsen and the three classical singers Katinka Fogh Vindelev, Nina Smidth-Brewer and Hávard Magnussen.
ANIMAL
TicketsI have tried to cut down on the breastfeeding, for you to be okay, if I end up in detention.
ANIMAL is a mother’s internal conversation with her child. A story about choosing to keep a child with Downs syndrom, “a useless being” in a world obsessed with efficiency and growth. It is the acclaimed debut novel by Alexandra Molthe Johansen transformed into brutal and poetic music theatre with an actor and three classical singers.
It begins during birth, an opening into war. An opening that cannot be closed. With birth and parenthood the cruelty of both humans and nature roll over the woman. A symphony of thoughts plays out in the meeting between acting and classical singing. Scenarios of fear and love declarations exist side by side in a scenography where shapes, walls, and materials constantly change. The visual inspiration comes from both modern wellness and baroque paintings of gracefully exhibited rotten fruit. Here a mother introduces her little child to the world. How is it to live and have children right now while the signs of a collapse begin to appear? Who and what, in our current society, owns the right to protection?
ANIMAL is a both brutal and poetic radicalization piece, a collective mourning ritual, a mothers revival created by the German director Lara Tacke with new composed music by Kirstine Fogh Vindelev and scenography by Freya Sif Hestnes. Alexandra Moltke Johansen’s debut novel is the steppingstone and the story is told by actress Signe Egholm Olsen and the three classical singers Katinka Fogh Vindelev, Nina Smidth-Brewer and Hávard Magnussen.