Mothers. A Song for War Time
conception and direction Marta Górnicka
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- 27 and 28/03/24
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- Montjuïc. Sala Fabià Puigserver
Timetable
At 19:00
Running time
1 h
Place
Sala Fabià Puigserver
Language
in Polish over-titled in Catalan
Price
€11 – €32
Description
The Polish director and singer Marta Górnicka presents a choral piece with 24 refugee women from Mariupol, Kiev and Bucha, a healing ritual inspired by the ones dedicated to women in the seventh century BC.
In this project, hope and love transcend human cruelty. Onstage: 25 Ukrainian, Polish and Belarusian mothers and their children. The voices convey Ukrainian children’s voices full of life, traditional songs, magic spells and striking political statements. They are the refugees from Mariupol, Kyiv and Bucha. Some of them fled the war; others, persecution. They all have a place in the Heart of Mothers, which follows an operatic form that dates back to ritual women’s choruses from the seventh century BC. A chorus is an embodiment of collective, transgenerational wisdom, and it offers us the opportunity to imagine the unimaginable, like a world without war. Similar to the pre-Christian choruses whose main purpose was to care for citizens, individual experiences coexist alongside the collective imagination in these encounters, workshops and laboratories. The goal is to heal through community with a polyphony of voices and critical discourses.
Schedule
CAST
to be confirmed
LIBRETTO
Marta Górnicka & Ensemble
MUSIC
Marta Górnicka, Wojciech Frycz and traditional music
CHOREOGRAPHY
Evelin Facchini
SETTING
Robert Rumas
COSTUMES
Tanya Tur, Svenja Gassen and Daniela Zorrozua
DRAMATURGY ADVISORS
Maria Yasińska and Anka Herbut
COPRODUCTION
The Chorus of Women Foundation Warsaw, Teatr Powszechny – Warsaw, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Festival d’Avignon, Maillon Theatre de Strasbourg - Scene Europeenne, Spring Performing Arts Festival Utrecht, Landestheater Niederosterreich Und Tangente St. Pölten – Festival Für Gegenwartskultur
