And so it was decided that apprentice Leslie Lachlan would spend her years of recognition on a solo mission far away in mountains that she had never been to before. There, she sets up camp, she practices her magic, she survives alone out in the wild. Her story is one of travel, danger, injury and deep-felt emotions - and we are reading it, smoking, checking our phones, keeping her company.
The performance is a performative and literary study on solitude, on the artistic solo and on the comfort and hardship one may find in the company of fictional characters. In response to the performance, Felix Schwarzrock further develops Leslie Lachlan's world in text and animation in his video installation 'Leslie wanted to return'. This evening, both works will be shown together for the first time.
Infos
Duration: approx 60 minutes
Language: English
In ccopertaion with Hessische Theaterakademie
Notes on sensory stimuli
--- dim/dark light
--- smoking of several cigarettes on stage
Content note
--- mentioning of death (as a possible result of an animal bite, description of dying
--- mentioning of animal bite
Sponsors and Supporters
Performance ‚O Solitude‘ von Maren Ada Küpper.
Zusammen mit Herbert Graf, Jil Dreyer, Josef Mehling.
Bilder im Buch und analoge Fotodokumentation: Merthe Wulf.
Video-Installation ‚Leslie wanted to return‘ von Felix Schwarzrock.
Mit Dank an: Zigaretten-Requisiteurin Florence Ruckstuhl, Carlos Franke, ASJA, Amélie Haller, Michael Eberle, Noel Friege, Bernhard Siebert, Björn Auftrag, Gerald Siegmund, Theatermaschine 2022, théôría 2023, Frankfurt LAB und Birgit Thielen + Harald Küpper.
Die Performance zeigt einen Ausschnitt des Films ‚I tend to say the sky is blue but isn’t that a bit too simple’ von Leonie Kopineck, Eva Streit, Merthe Wulf.
Unterstützt vom Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft. Gefördert durch die Hessische Theaterakademie.
Biography Felix Schwarzrock
Felix Schwarzrock studies Applied Theater Studies in Giessen and works primarily as a designer for theatre-light and video. As a fan of gaming, animated films and the fantasy genre, Felix lets different worlds collide in digital compositions.