A girl band on the way to the next gig: the tour bus is cramped, the air is stuffy and the turn-off is wrong. Instead of the planned concert, the five band members see nothing but desert ahead of them. And as if that were not enough of a challenge, the wasteland turns into a musical landscape full of surreal encounters with those who have preceded them. Women composers in their struggle for equal treatment, performance and work opportunities, and recognition. This encounter, as disturbing as it is inspiring, brings to light repressed truths as well as suppressed feelings and almost buried hopes. Will the band also draw new strength from these encounters to leave their own desert in one way or another?
Die WÜSTINNEN: a trip through the centuries with compositions by Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, Maria Theresia Paradis, Florence Price and Ethel Smyth in new arrangements and with music by Richard Schwennicke.
WITH Tilla Kratochwil, Florian Küppers, Brieann Pasko, Caroline Schnitzer, Isabel Wamig and the musicians Björg Brjánsdóttir, Sólveig Vaka Eyþórsdóttir, Stefano Cucuzzella, Nadezda Tseluykina, Irina Yudaeva
ARRANGEMENTS & COMPOSITIONS Richard Schwennicke TEXT Sommer Ulrickson and ensemble DIRECTOR Sommer Ulrickson SCENOGRAPHY Halina Kratochwil COSTUME Ulrike Plehn DRAMATURGY Änne-Marthe Kühn
