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R∄SOLUTION

The day of deliberation has come.
On this day, which occurs every 99 years, the Keymaster opens the Room of Mirrors for visitors to attend the vicious struggle and gracious birth of the Humane Methods sacred creatures.

The event is however very far from a deliberation council as intended in the Old World. As visitors can appreciate immediately, upon entering the Room of Mirrors, deliberation here is merely a naive term for a brutal conflict. Two chosen people from the Humane Methods world, the White Hoodies seen in ΔNFANG, are coerced into the same room, with minimal food resources and their own scarse means of subsistence.

The Keymaster’s duty is to ensure that one Hoodie kills the other, despite any kind of relation thay may happen to have, and that visitors can enjoy the events as comfortably as reasonably possible. Death and despair, perhaps lamentably, is the only possible deliberation at this event. But fear not! Once the shock and violence is overcome and silence by death is finally achieved, then, and only then, the real event can begin.

The victim and its murderer are, in fact, to become the new sacred incarnations of the Humane Methods world. The murderer will be first punished by the Oracle and then clothed in red garments washed in the blood of the dead. The victim will be healed and gently rebirthed into the form of a Deer.

Upon their encounter in these new forms of embodiment, noone knows what their relation will be. Their memories certainly blurred, albeit surely not congealed, the ways of their rapprochement will define the ways of life of the Humane Methods world for the next 99 years to come.

Direction: Marco Donnarumma
Concept: Marco Donnarumma, Margherita Pevere, Andrea Familari, Anna Cingi
Choreography: Marco Donnarumma, Margherita Pevere
Choreographic thinking: Marco Donnarumma, Margherita Pevere, Uwe Schmieder
Performers: Marco Donnarumma, Margherita Pevere, Uwe Schmieder
Interactive music system and spatial sound design: Marco Donnarumma
Light design and video design: Andrea Familari
Characters’ visual identity: Margherita Pevere, Marco Donnarumma
Costumes for White Hoodies: Margherita Pevere (2019), Anna Cingi (2023)
Set design and costume for Keymaster: Anna Cingi
Video/3D-Character design: Marvin Kanas
Spores: Pleurotus Salmoneostramineus
Video trailer: Max Hammel / Volkstheater Wien
Project management: Kotryna Slapsinskaite
Artistic production Volkstheater Wien: Eva Luzia Preindl
Assistant to the directors: Katrina Buchberger
Live photography: Marcel Urlaub / Volkstheater Wien

A production by Fronte Vacuo GbR, directed by Marco Donnarumma.
Commissioned and co-produced by Volkstheater Wien.

Shows

  • World premiere, Volkstheater Wien
    4 shows. Vienna, AT, 2023
FRONTE VACUO Est. 2019-until the doom. | All media licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated.