rhapsody

In the organizer's words:

SURREALIST TRAGICOMEDY / DREAM WORLD / HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Anyone who says "I'm dreaming" in a dream, even if he is talking audibly, is no more right than if he says "It's raining" in a dream when it is actually raining. Even if his dream is really connected with the sound of rain.
(From: Wittgenstein, Ludwig. On certainty.)

In the first quarter of the twentieth century, the composer George Gershwin asked himself the question: "What is American music?". His musical reflections and research resulted in the jazz-classical composition "Rhapsody in Blue". In the same year, on the other side of the Atlantic, André Breton wrote the Surrealist ^Manifesto1 - six years after the end of the First World War.
The destruction, violence and horror in the name of faith, nation and order were still present in minds and bodies.
The artists of Surrealism were already feeling the pull of inflation, xenophobia and unemployment under their feet as they lay in the trough of the waves and confronted the cresting ^waves2 with a higher reality of dreams, the unconscious and the associative.
One hundred years later, Azeret Koua, director and author of "rhapsody", poses the question: What does a celebration of ^theater3 look like in 2024? How can we find equivalents for a world that is subject to multiple crises, for a country overrun by a blue wave? How do we make a voice heard for the people who seem to have no place in this situation, as staying is increasingly becoming a risk and leaving is associated with uncertainty and worry?

The curtain rises. Behind it is a mirror, a projection screen and a table at which the representatives of power sit together. The old familiar zeitgeists gather. Their phrases echo through the room. One person joins them. Is invited to sit at the table. The floor beneath their feet begins to turn.
The fires that have been set do not burn out, different world views and worries captivate the dreamers and mingle with pop-cultural quotations and rituals. The audience itself falls into dreaming. Other characters appear, they seem to be related to each other, but who they are remains a mystery. New transformations change the stage and the atmosphere of the dream. When the experience is finally woven into our own story, we wake up, and the next morning, around the breakfast table, the words and images still echo^.4

"Rhapsody" puts its finger in a wound that hurts. A wound that cannot be healed.

Age recommendation: 16+