music theatre

Red Rooms

02.Nov.2022 // 19:30 (wp)

4./5./6. Nov. 2022

Wien Modern / Schauspielhaus

 

Production i5haus with the kind support of Stadt Wien Kultur, BMKÖS, Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (FONCA) Mexico, SKE der Austro Mechana | Co-production Wien Modern, PHACE, Musica Strasbourg, La Muse en Circuit, ORF Ö1 Kunstradio | Cooperation Schauspielhaus Wien

Angélica Castelló Idea, concept, composition, musical direction
Miguel Ángel Gaspar Concept, direction, movement
Ximena Escalante Dramaturgy
Ximena Escalante, Angélica Castelló, Miguel Ángel Gaspar Libretto

Bartholomaeus Wächter Stage design
Anna Hostek Costumes
Arnold “noid” Haberl Sound engineering
Oliver Mathias Kratochwill, Christoph Pichler in collaboration with Jan Machacek, Miguel Ángel Gaspar Lighting
Kira David, Valerie Holfeld Production management
Ariel Uziga Assistant director and choreographer

Theresa Dlouhy, Isabelle Duthoit Little Red Riding Hood (voice)
Romain Bischoff Wolf (voice)
Raphaela Danksagmüller, Thomas List, Maja Osojnik Grandmother (recorders, voice)
Jérôme Noetinger Other Wolf 1 (Revox, tapes, electronics)
Jan Machacek Other Wolf 2 (live video)

PHACE
Victor Lowrie viola
Roland Schueler violoncello
Maximilian Ölz double bass, electric bass
Reinhold Brunner bass clarinet
Alvaro Collao León saxophone
Stefan Obmann trombone
Berndt Thurner drums

Radio voices:
Wolfram Berger Salvador Novo
Hagnot Elischka Old Wolf
Christian Reiner Young Wolf
Martina Spitzer Grandmother
Sabine Marte Little Red Riding Hood
Natascha Gangl Tame Little Riding Hood
Miki Malör Forest
Elisabeth Findeis Neutral Voice

Red Rooms or seven episodes about a precarious relationship: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf inspired by Louise Bourgeois’ installation Red Room (Child) and Red Room (Parents).

A music theater about truth and lies, about lust and abuse, about love and power for voices, chamber ensemble, recorder trio, Revox tape machine, radios, cassette players and electronics in seven acts (2021-2022 premiere).

 


Color
is stronger than language. It’s a subliminal communication.
Red
is an affirmation at any cost regardless of the dangers in fighting of contradictions, of
aggressions.
It symbolizes the intensity of the emotions involved.

(Louise
Bourgeois)

On the stage are three cages and a family trapped in their own patterns — mother, son and granddaughter. They listen to the radio, talk, sing, drink, eat, sleep, kiss, fuck, puke, shit… The radio broadcasts interviews, news and commercials from Radio Roja, recognizable in German, English, French, Spanish. On stage on the other hand, a wild mixture of artificial language, onomatopoeia, noises, quotations from literature and diaries is produced with voices and other sound generators. The music speaks the language of Angélica Castelló: Dreamlike slowness and anti-virtuosity, minimalism and offbeat friction, the fearless misappropriation of early music (Gibbons, Ockeghem, Monteverdi), pop music and other objets trouvés. Quiet passages meet walls of noise, rock, drones, sine waves and low frequencies. And while the radio keeps playing, the Revox tape machine forms the gut through which everything passes, the intestines in which all incoming raw materials are devoured and transformed. (Speaking of food: Somewhere in the forest, deep in the subconscious of the Red Rooms, live the grandmother, Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf, in various incarnations.) The 15 musicians and soloists on stage, the dense network of electronics and field recordings conjure up external landscapes as well as intimate atmospheres of the rooms, making the emotional states of those present audible as well as the hopeless interpenetration and mixing of role models. The inner and outer spaces – whereby “inside” does not only stand for the psyche and “outside” not only for society or culture – open up existential experiences in different degrees of abstraction. In seven episodes, behavioral patterns of a familial, moral or erotic nature come to the surface. The stage is both a crime scene and a temple, a place of memories and events. The audience becomes the listening voyeur of a claustrophobic, immersive world full of innocence, danger, life, death, sex and eros.

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Event Dates

November 2022
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  • 02.Nov.2022 20:00

    Red Rooms

    Vienna, Wien Modern - Schauspielhaus

    Red Rooms or seven episodes about a precarious relationship: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf inspired by Louise Bourgeois' installation Red Room (Child) and Red Room (Parents).

    A music theater about truth and lies, about lust and abuse, about love and power for voices, chamber ensemble, recorder trio, Revox tape machine, radios, cassette players and electronics in seven acts (2021-2022 premiere).

    Read more
  • 04.Nov.2022 20:00

    Red Rooms

    Vienna, Wien Modern - Schauspielhaus

    Red Rooms or seven episodes about a precarious relationship: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf inspired by Louise Bourgeois' installation Red Room (Child) and Red Room (Parents).

    A music theater about truth and lies, about lust and abuse, about love and power for voices, chamber ensemble, recorder trio, Revox tape machine, radios, cassette players and electronics in seven acts (2021-2022 premiere).

    Read more
  • 05.Nov.2022 20:00

    Red Rooms

    Vienna, Wien Modern - Schauspielhaus

    Red Rooms or seven episodes about a precarious relationship: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf inspired by Louise Bourgeois' installation Red Room (Child) and Red Room (Parents).

    A music theater about truth and lies, about lust and abuse, about love and power for voices, chamber ensemble, recorder trio, Revox tape machine, radios, cassette players and electronics in seven acts (2021-2022 premiere).

    Read more
  • 06.Nov.2022 20:00

    Red Rooms

    Vienna, Wien Modern - Schauspielhaus

    Red Rooms or seven episodes about a precarious relationship: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf inspired by Louise Bourgeois' installation Red Room (Child) and Red Room (Parents).

    A music theater about truth and lies, about lust and abuse, about love and power for voices, chamber ensemble, recorder trio, Revox tape machine, radios, cassette players and electronics in seven acts (2021-2022 premiere).

    Read more

 

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