Text, direction, costumes and scenography: Leila Hekmat / Music: Roman Ole, Roman Lemberg / Choreography: Shade Theret / Performers: Aya Sone, Edith Saldanha, Elena Francalanci, Jette Lona Hermanis, Mara Snip, Mickey Mahar, Roman Lemberg, Roman Ole, Samuel Pereira, Shade Theret, Susanne Sachsse / Music ensemble: Miako Klein, Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue, Raivis Misjuns / Collaboration costumes and props: Elsa Leguévaques / Collaboration props and scenography / Realization of props and stage design: Niël Meyer / Sound: Xavier Perrone / Light design: Rainer Casper / Dramaturgy and project management: Antonia Rohwetter / Assistant direction: Richard Gersch / Technical direction: Bernhard Linde, Fine Freiberg / Administration: Anja Weigl
Leila Hekmat
Gloriette
- Theatre
English /
With German surtitles /
With English surtitles /
Welcome to the Gloriette – an offbeat department store on the outskirts of Venice that is slowly sinking into the sea. On offer today and everyday: voluptuous commodities in full bloom. It is here where you will discover blessedly banal mind blowing merchandise that will transform you into a walking collage of unfamiliar glory – ridiculous yet positively vulnerable.
On the invitation of HAU Hebbel am Ufer, visual artist Leila Hekmat makes her institutional theatre debut with “Gloriette”, a musical comedy where baroque opulence turns to anarchy. Featuring original music by Roman Ole and Roman Lemberg composed with electronics and a Baroque-inspired ensemble, and choreography by dancer and choreographer Shade Theret, “Gloriette” is performed by a transdisciplinary ensemble of dancers and performers, starring Susanne Sachsse, Edith Saldanha and Mickey Mahar as an isolated group of employees and customers inhabiting the sinking shop.
As the water slowly rises, the shop employees don’t seem very bothered as they go on tending to their idiosyncratic, highly specialised departments. What are these post-apocalyptic workers holding onto? “Gloriette” is taking us on a tragic yet comical search for desire, belief, self-actualisation and psychic survival in a dying commodified world.
Cast
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Dates
Current
Further Information
Visitor note
Notes:
After the premiere: Set it off! Party at WAU
8.12.: Performative stage tour for everyone from 2 years old
Credits
Production: Leila Hekmat. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Supported by: Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Callie’s (Residenz).
Location
HAU1
Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Access to the Parkett by means of a separate entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can be booked via the ticketing system. If you need any help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email at
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
