ALICES GESCHWISTER
A multimedia theatre piece about a bizarre, tragicomic story.
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»Alices Geschwister« tells the story of a clever and curious girl who is “different” and cannot conform to socially standardised paradigms.
Lewis Carroll’s novel “Alice in Wonderland” serves as a foil for a multimedia fabric of video, music, song, language, and drama that oscillates between the bizarre, the comic, and the tragic, as the novel already anticipates various psychological border crossings: Alice talks to herself, concerses with animals, experiences sensory illusions and lives thoroughly strange and fantastic characters.
Is she just an extremely imaginative girl, or does she live on the edge of borderline symptoms and schizophrenic delusions?
In »Alices Geschwister« reinterpretation, Alice does not fall down a deep rabbit hole, but is admitted to a psychiatric institution. To escape everyday life in the hospital, Alice creates her own reality and creates imaginary friends, duplicate selves, a Cheshire cat and Lewis Carroll himself.
»Alices Geschwister« takes the audience on a journey into the delusional and comical world of a mental asylum and interweaves original quotes from the novel with letters from patients, her own texts, and songs to create a bizarre and tragic texture.
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Premiered on February 04th 2021
Further performances: 05/07 February 2021 at Theater im Delphi [Gustav-Adolf-Straße 2, 13086 Berlin]
with: Karoline Stegemann, Sophia Platz, Munsha and the Rabbit.
Text, direction: Daniela Lunelli aka Munsha | Co-direction: Susanne Chrudina | Music: Daniela Lunelli aka Munsha | Designed video: Anders Bigum | Live Video: Dafne Narvaez Berlfein | Character Design: Nelson Santos | Production Management: Chris Wohlrab | Lighting Design: Hendrik Haupt | Sound Engineering: Utku Tavil | Technical Management: Tilman Agueras (Theater im Delphi) | Make-up: Nataša Trifunac | Stage assistant: Seamus O’Donnell | Video editing: Dafne Narvaez Berlfein | Camera: Catalina Fernandez, Noam Gorbat | Graphics / Layout: Aurora Kellermann | Photography: Anna Motterle | English subtitles: Orla Ambrose.
A production in cooperation with Theater im Delphi and TATWERK | Performative Forschung. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the kind support of Verein zum Erhalt der Domjüch – ehemalige Landesirrenanstalt e.V. and Theaterhaus Mitte Berlin.
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The Verein zur Erhaltung der Domjüch aims to make the idyllic area at Domjühsee accessible to the public and to create a meeting place for recreation and conscious discussion of the history and development of mental health and psychiatry.
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