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SONGS THAT SCARE AWAY FEAR

 

after ideas by Herta Müller


spectacol-concert de: Ada Milea
set and costume design: Alexandra Mureșan
consultant: Ernest Wichner
sound adjustments: Victor Panfilov
set and costume design assistant: Cate Cherecheș


Cast:
She: Anca Hanu
The friends on the electric guitar: Radu Dogaru
The friend on the drums: Cristian Rigman
The friend on the keyboard and bass: Mihnea Blidariu
The Mother: Adriana Băilescu
The Agent: Miron Maxim
The friend on lights and technical directing: Mădălina Mânzat
The agent on the sound: Vlad Negrea


stage manager: Mădălina Mânzat
sound technician: Vlad Negrea
lights technician: Mădălina Mânzat


It's an attempt to ''translate'' into song a small part of Herta Müller's world, it's the view with which I read her works and the result of the way the poetry of her strong and fragile being made me feel. The small Euphorion studio is inviting the audience into the world we propose, among words, lights, steps, breaths, instruments, happenings, characters and tissues.

Ada Milea




The concert-performance Songs that Scare Away Fear invites us to enter an intimate universe, to explore it empathically and to finally recognize it as part of ourselves. In a captivating musical interpretation of Hertei Müller's biography, reconstructed from various of her texts, Ada Milea constructs a story in verse about the suffering of exile, about the distorted forms that love takes in a world of extremes, and about coming to terms with our own small personal histories, especially under the pressure of the big, often unscrupulous, history. She (Anca Hanu) lives her life under the spectre of a war that is already over, but which has left in its wake the almost equally destructive force of the communist dictatorship. The characters who live in the protagonist's memory become extensions of her being, constant presences, either tender or threatening. Although today's spectator lives in a seemingly different and distant reality, the performance demonstrates the universality of fear and the therapeutic power of hope.



The performance is inspired by texts from the following works:

Immer derselbe Schnee und immer derselbe Onkel (Always the Same Snow and Always the Same Uncle) by Herta Müller

© 2011 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, München
 

Mein Vaterland war ein Apfelkern (My Homeland Was an Appleseed) by Herta Müller

© 2014 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, München
 

Der König verneigt sich und tötet (The King Bows and Kills) by Herta Müller

© 2003 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, München





Opening date: Thursday, April 18 2024

"Euphorion" Studio
12+
1h
 

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