All right. Good night. go to Taiwan! Our cooperation with Rimini Protocol continues and this time we are traveling to Taichung, Taiwan, from May 24th to May 26th, 2024.
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All right. Goodnight.
A piece about disappearance and loss
By Helgard Haug with music by Barbara Morgenstern
The MH370 was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines.
On March 8, 2014, the Boeing took off from Kuala Lumpur with 227 passengers and 12 crew members to its destination Beijing: Unspectacular routine for 39 minutes and 13 seconds. Then the plane disappeared from radar.
Its disappearance has been called one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time – because it seems incredible that something as large as a Boeing could go missing in a world where everything and everyone is believed to be under surveillance.
And it seems impossible that it will remain lost. Although the search was the most expensive in history at over 150 million euros and was of impressive proportions.
Shortly after the plane disappeared, the author and director’s father wrote four letters congratulating his grandson on his birthday. The content is almost identical; Each envelope is franked with a special stamp. A year later there is no card at all, the birthday was probably forgotten and at some point this forgetfulness gets a name and becomes an illness: dementia. The name of the grandson is forgotten, the fact that there is one and finally the certainty about oneself.
In ‘All right. Goodnight.’ Helgard Haug traces the disappearance, the search and the struggle with uncertainty – using the example of the missing plane and the manifesting dementia of her own father. It is the record of an irreversible process.
Music is the artistic medium that has the greatest tradition of making the disappeared understandable. Be it through a requiem to commemorate the deceased or through a choir that already acted as a chronicler in the ancient theater and reported on battles and divine decrees that were hard to imagine. For ‘All right. Goodnight.’ The electro-pop musician Barbara Morgenstern is composing for a classical orchestra for the first time in collaboration with the arranger Davor Vincze. Do the 12 musicians of the Zafraan Ensemble succeed in making the gap and the emptiness that follows understandable?
The theater is the place of visualization, presence and liveness. Or even A-Liveness. Every stage event is permeated with liveliness. The audience can make sure, second by second: These bodies on the stage are there for me, this voice speaks to me – now, in this moment. We share this exact moment, here, in a room – this reality.
But: What happens to the theater when the naturalness of human presence disappears for a performance?
What’s left then?
Just thoughts and memories? The naked theater apparatus? The music?
Concept, text, direction: Helgard Haug
Composition: Barbara Morgenstern
Orchestra: Zafraan EnsembleHands: Johannes Benecke, Mia Rainprechter
Speakers: Emma Becker, Evi Filippou, Margot Gödrös, Ruth Reinecke, Mia Rainprechter, Louise Stölting
Stage: Evi Bauer
Video/Light Design: Marc Jungreithmeier
Sound Design: Peter Breitenbach
Conductor: Premil Petrović
Arrangement: Davor Branimir Vincze
Dramaturgy: Juliane Männel
Outside Eye: Aljoscha Begrich
Technical direction: Andreas Mihan
Technical direction touring: Martin Schwemin
Artistic collaboration: Lisa Homburger
Costume and artistic collaboration Set design: Christine Ruynat
Sound Design Assistant: Rozenn Lièvre
Assistant Technical Director: David Scholz
Production Manager: Louise Stölting
Zafraan Ensemble Musicians Stage:
Matthias Badczong (clarinet), Evi Filippou (drums), Josa Gerhard (violin), Martin Posegga (saxophone), Beltane Ruiz (double bass). )
Zafraan Ensemble Musicians Recording:
Josa Gerhard (violin), Noa Niv (trombone), Matthias Badczong (clarinet), Liam Mallet (flute), Martin Posegga (saxophone), Damir Bacikin (trumpet), Anna Viechtl (harp), Adam Weisman (drums), Evi Filippou (drums), Yumi Onda (violin), Benedikt Bindewald (viola recording), Maria Reich (viola), Alice Dixon (cello), Natalie Plöger (double bass), Florian Juncker (trombone)
A production of Rimini Apparatus. In co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Volkstheater Wien, Factory International for Manchester International Festival, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, PACT Zollverein.
Funded by the Capital Culture Fund and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
