Text & Direction: Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska / With: Gabel Eiben, Anne Gridley, Robert M. Johanson, Bence Mezei, Kadence Neill / Music: Robert M. Johanson / Set & lighting design: Luka Curk / Costume design: Anna Sünkel / Dramaturgy: Marcus Dross, Katja Herlemann / Set Design Assistant and Props: Hanna Marlene Schnell / Set Design Assistant: Nastja Miheljak / German Translation: Ulrich Blumenbach / Production Manager Künstlerhaus Mousonturm: Anne Kleiner / Management and Distribution: Something Great (Berlin)
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
Burt Turrido: An Opera
- Theatre
English /
With German surtitles /
240 mins, intermission after 105 mins.
Nature Theater of Oklahoma is back! In “Burt Turrido: An Opera” a man lost and drowning at sea is rescued by a mysterious woman, who escorts him to the last remaining piece of land left on earth. Despoiled of vegetation and full of the ghosts of its former inhabitants, the island is ruled by a despotic king and queen, who name their newly discovered castaway Burt Turrido, and make him their slave, and – when he proves too inept at that – their prisoner… With kitschy sets, great emotions, disappointed love and impending death, Nature Theater of Oklahoma subvert the classical opera genre with a spectacular, wild-west performance that purposefully skirts the cliché cliff by a hair’s breadth. The theatre group founded in 1996 in New York and with its Berlin base at HAU, unabashedly dismantles everything it encounters in the way of conventional structures and forms, only to reassemble it with great passion, humour and the courage to take risks.
Cast
Dates
Past
Credits
Production: Nature Theater of Oklahoma (New York City - US), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt/ M.), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Frankfurt/ M.).
Coproduction: HAU Hebbel Am Ufer, Arctic Arts Festival (Harstad) Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Espoo City Theatre, Kampnagel (Hamburg), Wiener Festwochen, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Noorderzon Festival of Performing Arts & Society (Groningen)
Commissioned by: Frankfurter Positionen 2021, an initiative of the BHF-Bank Foundation.
Funded by: German Federal Cultural Foundation and Adolf und Luisa Haeuser-Stiftung für Kunst und Kulturpflege as part of the project series UNLIMITED II promoting exemplary positions in the contemporary performing arts.
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can also be booked via the ticketing system. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
