For the Disconnected Child
PREMIERE 14/06/2013
Schaubühne Berlin
»What he set out to do this time sounded a little megalomaniacal: not only dancers and actors are involved, but also singers and musicians from the State Opera. […] And yet nothing feels excessive or overblown. Everything comes together into the truly grand evening of theatre one had scarcely dared to hope for.«
»What he set out to do this time sounded a little megalomaniacal: not only dancers and actors are involved, but also singers and musicians from the State Opera. […] And yet nothing feels excessive or overblown. Everything comes together into the truly grand evening of theatre one had scarcely dared to hope for.«
»What he set out to do this time sounded a little megalomaniacal: not only dancers and actors are involved, but also singers and musicians from the State Opera. […] And yet nothing feels excessive or overblown. Everything comes together into the truly grand evening of theatre one had scarcely dared to hope for.«
Falk Richter’s new project examines the human desire for connection, the quest for encounter and the yearning for fulfillment in a cosmos of increasingly fleeting concepts of lifestyles, relationships and society. In For the Disconnected Child individuals search for meaning, fulfillment, the next kick, connection with one another – they encounter each other, they lose each other and they find each other. For the first time, actors of the Schaubühne team up with dancers and singers and musicians of the Berlin Staatsoper to create a series of scenic compositions, album-like tracks where text intersects with new music, drama meets musical theatre and singing encounters choreography.
In collaboration with Icelandic singer-songwriter, Helgi Hrafn Jónsson, Falk Richter creates this album of scenic tracks – joined by seven young composers of new music who respond to the material, arrange and re-compose it; the stage becomes a testing ground on which the relationships between dancers, singers, musicians and actors are constantly re-negotiated, re-connected and released.
Conductor // Wolfram Maria Märtig
Composition // Malte Beckenbach, Achim Bornhoeft, Sebastian Claren, Oliver Sascha Frick, Helgi Hrafn Jónsson, Jan Kopp, Jörg Mainka, Oliver Prechtl
Stage design // Katrin Hoffmann
Costumes // Daniela Selig
Video // Chris Kondek
Dramaturgy // Florian Borchmeyer, Nils Haarmann, Jens Schroth
With // Franz Hartwig, Helgi Hrafn Jónsson, Ursina Lardi, Borjana Mateewa, Steven Michel, Gyula Orendt, Franz Rogowski, Maraike Schröter, Stefan Stern, Tilman Strauß, Jorijn Vriesendorp, Luise Wolfram and musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin