MEDIATHEK

Music Impossible is a 'muted' (wordless) music and shadow theatre project, based on a child-friendly fairytale (a trilogy written especially for this project). It follows a group of "secret" instrumentalists who are trying to find their way in a strange modern world from which music has been forcefully evicted. The project’s realisation is inspired by the ancient Asian art (and its later South East European development) of the shadow puppeteers. In our "magnified" version of shadow theatre, the instrumentalists become the puppets for the fairytale's main characters, while the remaining roles are given to actual puppets. Through this process, the musicians acquire a second nature: their musical gestures (playing), enriched with non-musical ones (acting), are projected (along with the puppets) as shadows on a number of on-stage translucent screens. The performers acoustically and visually "narrate" the story without using spoken text; they support the dramaturgy, while also creating its sound and musical world. 

// The show begins with a conventional concert, that is supposed to be taking place at an earlier time, when music was still existing (a selection of pre-existing works is used in this section). However, the concert is being interrupted, and that brings us back to the present. Music has been banned for a long time, when Roger decided to move back to his family's house. He will then find a hidden part of what it seems to be a musical instrument, which will gradually lead him to other people with similar findings. All together, they will learn how to use their instruments and organise a concert. That will be the final battle with Scrouge (the dictator who banned music).