Die gleißende Welt

In 1666, Europe is in the midst of a small ice age. There is another plague. London is burning. While forms of rule are being overturned, questioned and fundamentally rethought everywhere, Margaret Cavendish becomes a pioneer of science fiction literature with "The Blazing World". In a utopian parallel world beyond the North Pole, surrounded by animal creatures and fantastic technologies, she questions female participation in society, science and politics. She searches for answers, creates a matriarchy, ends up subjugating entire planets and continues to ask: what worlds do we imagine when our own disintegrates?

After "Restworld", "Die gleißende Welt" is the second work by the Frankfurt duo F. Wiesel at the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg. F. Wiesel's work focuses on figure and object theater as well as the use of analog film trick technology.