MOTHERS – A SONG FOR WARTIME

In the organizer's words:

The wartime rituals of violence against women never change. From the accounts of Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish mothers and children who fled war and persecution, the Polish director and founder of the Political Voice Institute, Marta Górnicka, creates a choral theater piece.

In it, together with the group of Ukrainian, Polish and Belarusian women of different generations, she relates their present-day experiences to the traditional Ukrainian ritual song Shchedrivka / Щедрівка. In Mothers - A Song for the Wartime, they search for a new, ritual, post-operatic choral voice that refers to women's choirs from the seventh century BC. Their singing becomes an accusation, a call, a plea, a warning. Ukrainian children's games, traditional songs, magic spells, poems, wishes and political statements meet in it, in the hope that what is expressed may come true. These ritual-melodic wishes are now addressed to all people, for a new, hopeful time, for a time we hope will last a lifetime.

In Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian with English surtitles

With Katerina Aleinikova, Svitlana Berestovska, Sasha Cherkas, Palina Dabravoĺskaja, Katarzyna Jaźnicka, Ewa Konstanciak, Liza Kozlova, Anastasiia Kulinich, Natalia Mazur, Kamila Michalska, Hanna Mykhailova, Darya Novik, Valeriia Obodianska, Svitlana Onischak, Yuliia Ridna, Maria Robaszkiewicz, Polina Shkliar, Aleksandra Sroka, Kateryna Taran, Bohdana Zazhytska, Elena Zui-Voitekhovskaya

Chorus of Woman Foundation: Marta Kuźmiak, Iwa Ostrowska, Katarzyna Koślacz

Premiere 29/September 2023 Teatr Powszechny Warsaw

A contingent of tickets is available for the world premiere in Warsaw. Reservations at besucherservice@gorki.de.

Sponsored by Allianz Foundation

In the context of the 6th Berlin Autumn Salon 2023 LOST - YOU GO SLAVIA

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