Leila Hekmat &
IL MATRIMONIO DI IMMACOLATA
25. November –
26. November 2021
25. November 20:00
Staged by DISAPPEARING BERLIN.
Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche
Händelallee 20, 10557 Berlin
Five brides, two flower girls, a mistress, two mothers and a priest come to the church. Set at Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtnis church at Hansaviertel, artist and theater maker Leila Hekmat invites the audience to attend her new opera comedia Il Matrimonio di Immacolata. As a wedding party, we will witness a darkly humoristic and essentially human exploration of the ambivalence found in love and the hypocrisy imposed by the social and moral contract of marriage.
Following the hyperbolic comedy CROCCOPAZZO! (2020), Il Matrimonio di Immacolata is the second piece of an evolving trilogy. The ceremony guides us through the complexities and conflict we experience in our yearning for closeness and self-actualization, devotion and independence. In sinister dialogue with the liturgical, social and institutional realities of the act of marriage, the performers find themselves in an unforeseeably fragile construct in their search for romantic and personal fulfillment.
The music, a combination of original compositions by Roman Ole and Roman Lemberg and rearrangements of Mozart, enhances the ritualistic character of this ceremony. We find ourselves made into bizarre witnesses to a union, confronted with the question of whether and what to believe…
CAST
Written and directed by
Leila Hekmat
Starring
Marta Antinucci / Elena Francalanci / Shade Theret / Cassie Augusta Jorgenson / Estefanía Alvarez Ramirez / Luisa Alfonso / Angela Braun / Marie Requa Gailey / Magpie / Noah Lichtblau / Roman Ole
Organ
Roman Lemberg
Piano
Ben Cruchley
Music by
Roman Ole and Roman Lemberg
Choreography
Shade Theret
Costumes
Leila Hekmat
Tailoring
Elsa Leguevaques
Hair and make up
Franziska Presche
Produced by
DISAPPEARING BERLIN / Schinkel Pavillon and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
DISAPPEARING BERLIN is a performance and music program, produced by Schinkel Pavillon, funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).