Lieder ohne Worte

A smoking car wreck in a nocturnal forest clearing, from whose broken radio “Romantic salon dreams” by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy roar. This musical “crash sculpture“ is meticulously built up in the course of a performance by five sound and illusion experts - shard by shard, sound by sound. In juxtaposition to this slowly unfolding brass catastrophe, an electric chamber music trio expands Mendelssohn‘s piano cycle “Songs Without Words“, with unexpected noises and reverberations. Thus the end of a road movie becomes the starting point of the new music theater development by Swiss director and stage designer Thom Luz. 

Songs without Words is about shock and speechlessness, changes of perspective, destruction and the future, and the necessary reconstruction of the present. How have we driven ourselves up against the wall? Do we still exist? And what is to be done now? Where words do not suffice, sounds reform themselves. In the interplay of catastrophic images and musical superimpositions, a delicate, meticulously thought-out spatial composition emerges.

Little dialogues in German/English/French with subtitles.