DVD choregie project WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST PEASANTS; LADY? by Karmina Šilec

(Heiner Müller)

 

Concept, music direction and stage design Karmina Šilec

 

Performing

Vocal Choir Carmina Slovenica, chamber ensemble

Jasmina Črnčič, Eva Germ, Mojca Potrč, Nina Pušenjak, Sara Ritonija, Ana Sandrin, Ana Studen

Music Jacob Cooper

Text Heiner Müller Germania 3

 

Memories are the main protagonists, and voices from the past are the ones that lead us to unexpected effects where Time takes initiative for action. Figures – farmer and women – speak from within their historical contexts to the present in an effect which creates a museum-like theatre of the dead.

Memories are the main protagonists, and voices from the past are the ones that lead us to unexpected effects where Time takes initiative for action. Figures – farmer and women – speak from within their historical contexts to the present in an effect which creates a museum-like theatre of the dead.
German history and culture, its effects across the broader field of Europe: Final days of WW2. Croatian SS Man, who looks to German officers widows “like a peasant”, arrives and does the job for them with the peasant’s tool, an axe …   Imaginary accounts of the pain and suffering of modern German history: Present time. Croatian soldier is now a guest worker in Germany, dressed in a suit, shirt and tie. He tells his story …     SALE: – DVD shipping worldwide (Carmina Slovenica web page) – avaible to download