Description
Photos
Cast
Support
Description
Achievements in science and technology encourage human hubris and the idea that nature is subject to our will. At the same time, the limits of what can be scientifically understood confront us with a feeling of powerlessness. Climate change, species extinction, wars, and other human-made disasters promise a bleak future full of uncertainty and fear.
This attitude toward life does not stop at a well-to-do Swiss family. The Stüdeli family has settled in and shielded themselves perfectly. The audience is invited to the inauguration of their visionary indoor garden. But suddenly something goes wrong. A crack appears in the perfect surface and the omnipresent horror seeps through.
Through spatial, visual, and musical borderline experiences, this musical theater evening approaches the diffuse feeling of human powerlessness and tentatively explores a world-without-us. Mr. and Mrs. Stüdeli and their fellow humans try to counteract the looming catastrophe with a wide variety of rational approaches. Can indoor greening, mushroom research, genetic engineering, or archetypal rites stop the horror of a disintegrating world? And what does the cute hamster Fibsi have to do with all this?
Photos
Photos by Adriana Palermo
Cast
Sarah Brusis: direction
Viviane Hasler: soprano, acting
Katharina Heißenhuber: soprano, acting
Christoph Waltle: tenor, acting
Vokalensemble OTTO: choir
Deborah Züger: choir conducting
Jasmin Kiranoglu: performance, acting
Stefan Kägi: piano, composition
Christian Wolfarth: percussion
Rita Maria Jurt: composition
Isabelle Simmen: scenography, costumes
Chi Him Chik: sound technique
Viktoras Žemeckas: light technique
Pätz Häusli: instrument making
Support
This project was made possible by:
Stadt Zürich Kultur
Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich
Aargauer Kuratorium
Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Kulturförderung Stadt Winterthur
Kulturförderung Graubünden
Graubündner Kantonalbank
Stiftung Thomas Dubs