Angélica Liddell
(Madrid/Gent)
Primera carta de San Pablo a los Corintios. Cantata BWV 4, Christ lag in Todesbanden. Oh, Charles!
Mousonturm Saal
Theater
- 16.04.2015, 20.00 Uhr€ 19,- / erm. € 9,-, Primera carta de San Pablo a los Corintios ..., 19:30 Uhr Einführung im Foyer
- 18.04.2015, 8 p.m.€ 19,- / red. € 9,-
Faith hope love come together for their seasonal rendezvous (love bring the biggest of the three), and Angelica Liddell still has a few things to ask God. Is it true that we do not all die? That only those die, who have loved? And that only the dead are reborn and become immortal? Is hate a form of love? Does love come from me or to me? Can two people, who aren’t loved, not love each other either? Is love therefore a duty, a commandment, a task, whose fulfilment requires great effort? Over the last few years, one-of-a-kind Spanish author and performer Angélica Liddell has scaled the top of the European theatre Olympus with her intense solos and group pieces. The Festwochen in Vienna, the Berliner Festspiele or the Festival d’Avignon have all repeatedly produced her work; most recently, the first two parts of her “resurrection trilogy” were sold-out for one month each in the gigantic Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris. The Mousonturm is now co-producing her newest piece, the conclusion of the trilogy and presenting its German premiere. Liddel’s view of the world is radically personal, but her ruthless emotionality makes her work universal. Her rage is sacredly contemporary; her negativity is dialectic. Her position is extreme, her aesthetic disturbingly fragile, kitschy, painful. Yet her rituals of rage are only seemingly self-destructive: they also force us to gaze into our own distorting mirror of piecemeal self-awareness.
In Spanish with German Surtitles.
Mousonturm Koproduktion * With: Angélica Liddell, Sindo Puche, Victoria Aime, Daria Bendel, Anna Fein, Hannah Bohr, Hannah Maneck, Daniela Marcozzi, Sonia Noya , Inés Recher * Text, Direction, Set and costumes design: Angélica Liddell * Curtains: ShowTex * Painting priting: Big Image Systems * Taxidermy: Fer Fauna * Light design: Carlos Marquerie * Sound: Antonio Navarro * Lighting technician: Octavio Gómez * Technical director: Marc Bartoló * Director assistant and stage manager: Julio Provencio * Production and logistics: Mamen Adeva * Production manager: Gumersindo Puche * Executive production: Iaquinandi, S.L. * Translation: Monika Kalitzke * Surtitles: Victoria Aime * Make Up & Hairdresser: Eveline Boeckx * Blood collection: Jessica Richards * Coproduction: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Festival d’Automne à Paris, 68° Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici al Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza – Comune di Vicenza – Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza, La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Theater Chur, Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy * Supported by: Comunidad de Madrid and Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte – INAEM.
Premiere in the German-spreaking area
Biography
Angélica Liddell
Angélica Liddell is one of the most influential and important figures in Spanish performance theater as a writer, director and performance artist. In 1993 she founded the Atra Bilis Teatro, where she has premiered over twenty-five of her works. Among her numerous awards were the Casa de América Award for Innovative Drama in 2003 for her play Nubila Wahlheim; the SGAE Theatre Award in 2004 for Mi relación con la comida; the Premio Ojo Crítico Segundo Milenio Award in 2005 in recognition of her body of work; and the Notodo del Público Award for Best Performance in 2007 for her play Perro muerto en tintorería: los fuertes. The play El año de Ricardo won the Valle Inclán Award in 2008. Liddell was also awarded the Sebastiá Gasch Prize in 2011. Her most recent works, El año de Ricardo, La casa de la fuerza, Maldito sea el hombre que confía en el hombre and Todo el cielo sobre la tierra (El síndrome de Wendy), Qué haré yo con esta espada, The Scarlet Letter and Liebestod have premiered at the Festival d’Avignon, the Wiener Festwochen or the Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris. In 2012 she received the National Prize for Theater Literature, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, for La casa de la fuerza, and in 2013 the Silver Lion of the Biennale di Venezia. In 2017 Angélica Liddell was awarded the Order Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.