Season 2021/2022
Oblivia / Yiran Zhao
Obsessions
Concept, text: Oblivia
Artistic direction: Annika Tudeer
Composition, sound design, electronics: Yiran Zhao
Costumes: Tua Helve
Lighting design: Meri Ekola
Performance Dramaturg: Alice Ferl, Anna-Maija Terävä
Project. As part of a celebrated collaboration with Yiran Zhao for the Stuttgart festival “Eclat”, Oblivia ventured into the special realm of music theatre for the first time in February 2020. The continuation of this collaboration within the framework of the feXm project “Obsessions” now includes musicians and singers from the ensembles of the participating theatres and, for the first time, other actors in addition to Oblivia’s performers. Three singers, three performers and six musicians wander through space and time, roaming the field of the political and the private and playfully unmasking the power of desire as the driving force of human behaviour.
First production: Theater Bremen (premiere: 19.02.2022)
Further development: Wuppertal Opera (premiere: 03.12.2022)
Dates: 19., 22., 27.02.2022 (Theater Bremen)
03.12.2022, 14.01.2023 (Wuppertal Opera)
Cast Bremen
Nerita Pokvytyte, Mariam Murgulia, Timotheus Maas, Karin Enzler,
Matthieu Svetchine, Annika Tudeer, Timo Fredriksson, Alice Ferl (Performance)
Flöte Hélène Freyburger (flute), Gregor Daul (oboe), Anatoli Jagodin (trombone),
Rose Eickelberg (percussion), Reinhold Heise (violin), Marie Daniels (viola)
Musical direction: Yu Sugimoto
Light: Norman Plathe-Narr
Cast Wuppertal
Rebecca Murphy (Soprano), Julia Reznik (Mezzosopran), Yisae Choi (Bassbariton),
Alice Ferl, Timo Fredriksson, Matthieu Svetchine, Annika Tudeer (Performance),
Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal
Musical direction: Tobias Deutschmann
Trailer for »Obsessions« at Theater Bremen
Photos from the premiere at the Theater Bremen © Jörg Landsberg
Photos from the rehearsal process in January 2021 © Oblivia
