***NEW DATES ANNOUNCED***
October3-6, 2024 – English Theatre Berlin
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Created
and performed by
Shlomi Moto Wagner
Premiere: 16. June 2017, Alte Münze, Performing Arts Festival, Berlin.
A science fiction drag ritual and an experimental invocation for a constant distribution of desires based on visions and fantasies, Shlomi Moto Wagner has experienced since he was three years old. It explores transformations, mutations and re-manifestations of the idea of being, the sensuality of being a body, the politics of having a body and the poetics of sharing a bodily experience.
This solo music theater piece is a mythological and poetic reading of current pop culture and its academic discourse. Ancient Jewish texts and invocations and compositions of Hildegard von Bingen from the 12th century is newly arranged with pop hits, brand-new techno compositions and contemporary feminist texts. All of this makes the operatic performance a process of transformation.
Shlomi Moto Wagner is Mazy Mazeltov, is Wendy Williams, is Wisława Szymborska, is Fran Drescher, is Hélène Cixous and her Medusa is David Copperfield and Claudia Schiffer IN ONE BODY! And much, much more.
So, what is reality here and what is fiction? In times when a part of society wants to return to the gender roles of the 1950s, or even the 1940s, it is that much more critical to celebrate a festival of the imagination. Let’s make magic. And what comes out at the end? A concert, a drag queen musical, a monologue slam, a magic show, a bar mitzvah or simply a party with the people? Are the props ready? Powder, lipstick and glitter? All right!
Previous showings of SALVATION:
– July 2017, Performing Arts Festival, Berlin (Premiere).
– April 2019, ExPO Festival, Berlin.
– July 2019, Droste Festival, Burg Hülshoff
– November 2022, English Theatre Berlin, IPAC, Berlin.
– October 3-6, 2024, English Theatre Berlin, IPAC, Berlin.
Direction, Texts, Music and Design: Shlomi Moto Wagner
inspired by Hildegard von Bingen + Jess Arndt + Wisława Szymborska + Hélène Cixous + Siddhartha Mukherjee
Musical co-Production: Mike Closer & Tomer Levy
Costumes and Stage co-Design: Orli Baruch
Masks: Shlomi Moto Wagner, Yorai Sharon & Lego Sky
Outside Eye: Daniel Brunet
Technical Direction and Lighting Design: Torsten Litschko
Production Management: Kim Walz
Special thanks to Jörg Albrecht and the Berlin Performing Arts Festival who supported the initial creation of this piece.
English Theatre Berlin November 2022 – Photos: Bernhard Musil
Berlin Performing Arts Festival 2017 – Photos: David Beecroft
EXPO Festival 2019 | English Theatre Berlin – Photos: Jerun Vahle
Droste Festival 2019 – Fotos: Sabrina Richmann
SALVATION is funded and supported by:
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