INTERNATIONALES THEATERINSTITUT / MIME CENTRUM BERLIN

MEDIATHEK

FÜR TANZ

UND THEATER

MCB-TV-9378

I.th.Ak.A.

Autorenschaft
Beschreibung

I.th.Ak.A. is a new chamber opera from Samuel Penderbayne, re-telling The Odyssey in the digital realm. Just as Odysseus sailed the mediterranean of ancient times, Juli (from 'Ulysses') surfs the modern-day internet in order to find a sort of refuge from her captivity in a mental asylum. The wilderness, mystery, danger and limitless fantasy of Homer's world are for me represented today through the internet.
 
 Juli outsmarts the surveillance system - 'Cyclops' - and finds her way to a pornographic 'grey area' lead by a digital madame - 'Circe' - who introduces her to a customer with access to the dark net. She ascends into darkness, just as Odysseus travelled to the underworld to seek answers to his fate. There, Juli meets Dark, a fighter of the dark net, Borgo, a perverted artist who collects and eats real human toes - referring obliquely to Bacchus, the Roman god of wine - the Captain, who promises to take Juli to I.th.Ak.A., a supposed meeting point for people from her political resistance movement - representing Charon, the ferryman for the river Styx - and finally the 'Sirens', who tell Juli that the only way out is death. Juli confronts her fears, fear of losing control, of sex, of aggression, of the dark, of perversity, and ultimately, of herself.
 
 The music is 'cross-genre': a central contemporary classical language based on post-tonal intervallic constructs is enriched with pointed semiotic elements of Rock, Techno, Chiptune, Soul and R&B, neo-classicism and more.

Regie
Dramaturgie
Bühnenbild
Kostüm
Musik
Video
Standorte
MCB
Reihe
Sprache
de
Aufnahmedatum
Donnerstag, 05. April 2018
Orte
Stadt
Hamburg
Land
Deutschland
Länge
111 min