9 Volt Nelly - Bäng!Bäng!Bäng!

In the organizer's words:

In this play, 9 Volt Nelly questions our pursuit of so-called freedom with relish, wickedness and plenty of ovarian country and thus also the pitfalls of an emancipated, self-determined life.
emancipated, self-determined life. And in the form of her alter egos: "The Whiskey Sisters"! They are Merle Alabama and Jordan Crowne. Two sisters (or are they more like cousins?) from a small town, both with big dreams:
The two fearless ex-beauty queens from Texas leave their old, dreary lives behind with a bang. Now the Whiskey Sisters want to make their dreams come true in magical "Swederland". They are armed with a guitar, a hobbyhorse and an optimism that can drink even the most brutal reality under the table. A road trip to emancipation with plenty of ovary country.
They sing about inseparable friendship, invisible horses, the constipations of life, loneliness, determinism and the wild life "on the road". Whitcher and Mumford accompany each other musically with acoustic guitar, electric ukulele, harmonica, tap dance and trashy percussion. It's easy to see from the list of instruments: the play lives from and through the musical accompaniment.
The stage set is reminiscent of a hot, dusty courtyard: rusty stools lie around, washing lines are stretched out: Costumes, wigs and underwear hang there as if to dry. Technically, 9 Volt Nelly has upgraded the set with an animated stage design: a projector projects self-drawn images onto the hanging sheet (an old bed sheet), bringing them to life: Backgrounds that partly illustrate the narrative, partly make the imagined visible, and sometimes also provoke interaction.
The audience follows the Whiskey Sisters through the evening in the same way that they follow each other: through thick and thin, through better and worse times. Not everything is always harmonious, not every sky is always blue. A road trip like this also has its darker sides, and every friendship can become shaky when the big goals (in their case: to become famous singer-songwriters in Europe) gradually turn out to be more difficult than originally thought. But if the Whiskey Sisters are one thing, they are optimists! And this shimmers through the piece again and again as a guiding principle, motto and mantra:
If you are only ill-informed enough about life's difficulties, many an obstacle can be completely bypassed!
9 Volt Nelly is funny, critical, kitschy. Multilingual and political, musical and postmodern. Whitcher and Mumford are inspired by world political events, by their anger and their playfulness. They take great pleasure in every performative genre (except poetry slam) and mix cabaret with theater, comedy with music, satire and punk, activism and cabaret.

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