The Great Grand Other (hiatus)

Music theatre by McCrae, Zaitev, Schönijahn & Piroschik in co-production with HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts (2023–2025)

 

In THE GREAT GRAND OTHER, three performers explore how experiences and traumas of war are passed down through generations.

What did our parents and (great-)grandparents not tell us? What were they no longer able to tell? How reliable is what they did tell? And how do their experiences of war continue to resonate within us?

Between scenic concert, immersive installation, and performance, a poetic–musical search unfolds, beginning from a place of absence. It emerges where language falters, the voice fails, and stories fall silent. THE GREAT GRAND OTHER attempts to translate the immaterial legacies of war into images, texts, sounds, and movement.

What traces has the war left in our families and within ourselves? What do we keep silent about, and why? And how can we find our own voice?

THE GREAT GRAND OTHER invites us to enter this process of transformation together, to explore the silences within our family stories, and to search for words for the unspeakable.

IDEE
Michael McCrae

KÜNSTLERISCHE LEITUNG
Michael McCrae, Dina Zaitev & Matthias Schönijahn

PERFORMANCE & TEXT
Michael McCrae & Dina Zaitev

MUSIK & SOUNDKUNST
Melanka Piroschik & Matthias SchönijahN

DRAMATURGISCHE MITARBEIT / OUTSIDE EYE
Constantin von Thun

RAUM
Dina Zaitev

VIDEO
Matthias Schönijahn

KOSTÜM
Nicolas Navarro Rueda

TECHNISCHE LEITUNG & LICHT
Kristin Feldmann

TONTECHNIK
Helge Petzold

VIDEOTECHNIK
Hannes Petzold

PRODUKTIONSLEITUNG
Nicole Meier | art.revolution

Unser besonderer Dank gilt
Prof. Dr. Ruthard Stachowske, Efim Ciornii, Wolfram Streller, Robert Kirstan, Jan Kindler
(Militärhistorisches Museum Dresden)

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