Glen Sheppard: So Many Ideas

In the organizer's words:

The performance So Many Ideas explores a moral crisis that we can't quite put our finger on: a silent, self-destructive malaise, a creeping disaster.

In a dilapidated hotel room by the harbour, on the edge of their civilization, three women - one of them terminally ill - seek refuge in their shared space. One plays the violin almost absent-mindedly, another sings, while the third mumbles, dreams, pleads and remembers. Together, their words overlap, complement and challenge each other like a baroque cadence - a reflection of culture, a nervous tic, an urgent search for meaning: how they got there; how we all got here.

Inspired by Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky, Wallace Shawn's The Fever and musically by Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, So Many Ideas questions the present: in a world bursting with brilliance, beauty and invention - so many possibilities, so much creativity - why do we keep ending up in the same places with so little to show for it?

70 minutes, sung and spoken in English, German and Italian, partly with subtitles in German and English