Concept, Text, Direction: Marina Davydova, Marina Davydova / Set design: Zinovy Margolin / With: Marina Weis / Chulpan Khamatova / Voices: Odin Biron (Episode I EMPIRE), Jamal Ali, Luka Kalandadze, Igor Shugaleev, Gurgen Tsaturyan (Episode II NATIONS), Jamal Ali, Odin Biron, Marina Davydova, Boris Falikov, Luka Kalandadze, Alexey Kokhanov, Elizaveta Petrova, Farrukh Pirov, Igor Shugaleev, Gurgen Tsaturyan, Ekaterina Voronova (Episode IV PEOPLE) / Music: Vladimir Rannev / Video: Oleg Mikhailov / Video technology: Mikhail Ivanov / Light design and sound: Iurii Galkin / Assistant to director, production management, subtitles: Ekaterina Voronova / Choreography: Anna Abalikhina / Collaboration choreography: Sonya Levin, Anna Abalikhina / Research collaboration: Mikhail Kaluzhsky / Costumes: Marcus Barros Cardoso, Vera Liulko, Aleix Llusa Lopez / Set construction: SC ART DECO SRL, Wiener Werkstätten / Props: Daria Artemova / Assistence props: Gabi Bartels, Vera Liulko / Design: Jürgen Fehrmann, Gea Gosse / Translation: Sergei Ostrovsky, Sonia Ostrovsky (Englisch), Yvonne Griesel (Deutsch) / Production management, tour management: Elisabeth Knauf (HAU Hebbel am Ufer)
Marina Davydova / HAU
Museum of Uncounted Voices
- Theatre
With German translation /
With English translation /
Various languages /
115 mins.
A convertible museum space provides insights into the fragile history of the USSR. Between seemingly objective historiography and personal ruptures, a parcours emerges that illuminates the conflicts and time bombs of past border demarcations – highly topical and compelling.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was founded in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre on 30th December 1922. 100 years later, the critic, curator, and theatre maker Marina Davydova has conceptualised the “Museum of Uncounted Voices”. Davydova shows how the borders of the national republics within the USSR came into being, why those borders today have proved to be time bombs, and to what extent the cultures of the countries that once made up the Soviet Union have always differed. The audience enters a space resembling a museum that then comes to life before their eyes, transforming itself and offering an expedition through complex contexts. The itinerary itself proceeds from an apparently objective historiography to the contradictory and the existentially biographical. The HAU commissioned work premiered in 2023 as part of the Wiener Festwochen and was last presented at HAU2 in October of the same year. Now, Marina Davydova’s acclaimed theatre work is back at HAU – and has lost none of its relevance. As an open opponent of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Davydova lives in exile in Berlin.
The premiere of “Museum of Uncounted Voices” was part of the “Voices” Festival in 2023. This year, the “Voices Berlin Festival” will take place at HAU from 24.10. to 16.11.
Cast
Dates
Past
Further Information
Visitor note
Notes:
2.11.: With Marina Weis
4.–6.11.: With Chulpan Khamatova
Credits
Commissioned by HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Wiener Festwochen. Co-production: Theater Freiburg. Supported by: Voices Berlin Festival.
Location
HAU2
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