Burt Turrido. An Opera

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

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Burt Turrido. An Opera

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

New York theatre-makers Kelly Cooper and Pavol Liška joyously explode the opera genre and use song and dance to tell a post-apocalyptic love story in the post-Anthropocene.

A shipwrecked man is saved from drowning by a beautiful and mysterious woman, who brings him ashore on the last remaining piece of land. Plundered of its vegetation and populated by the ghosts of its former inhabitants, the island (which used to be known as Greenland) is ruled by a despotic King and Queen. Other ingredients of this tragic opera are a fateful storm, an immaculate conception, a murder, a love triangle, a fake execution, a birth, an invasion by aliens, complete with abduction – and the opera will not be over until someone is eventually impaled on a narwhal tusk. Nature Theater of Oklahoma promises you that much!

Nature Theater of Oklahoma is an award-winning New York art and performance group. “‘Burt Turrido. An Opera”’ was rehearsed at Bockenheimer Depot in the middle of the Covid lockdown under strict safety regulations and can now be seen in Germany for the first time as a festival special.

Infos

A joint production by Schauspiel Frankfurt and Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

Recommended age: 14+
Languages: English, dubbing in German
Duration: approx. 3 hours 45 minutes, one interval

Sponsors and Supporters

Text und Regie: Kelly Cooper, Pavol Liška
Mit: Gabel Eiben, Anne Gridley, Robert M. Johanson, Bence Mezei, Kadence Neill
Musik: Robert M. Johanson
Bühne und Lichtdesign Luka Curk
Kostüm: Anna Sünkel
Dramaturgie: Marcus Dross, Katja Herlemann
Produktionsleitung, Koordination & Distribution Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm: Anne Kleiner / Katja Armknecht
Deutsche Übersetzung: Ulrich Blumenbach
Erstellung Deutsche Übertitel: Sara Gröning
Tontechnik: Leon Curk, Daniel Groß
Bühnenbildassistentin von Lika Curk: Nastja Miheljak
Bühnenbildassistenz Schauspiel Frankfurt: Hanna Marlene Schnell
Distribution: Something Great

Ein Werkauftrag im Rahmen des Festivals Frankfurter Positionen 2021, eine Initiative der BBHF BANK Stiftung

Eine Produktion von Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Schauspiel Frankfurt und Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Koproduziert von Arctic Arts Festival, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Espoo City Theatre, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Kampnagel, Wiener Festwochen und Züricher Theater Spektakel.

Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes und die Adolf und Luisa Haeuser-Stiftung für Kunst und Kulturpflege im Rahmen der Projektreihe UNLIMITED II zur Förderung exemplarischer Positionen zeitgenössischer Performing Arts