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The stories of Yazidi women
Direction: Tea Tupajić
Schauspielhaus
Opening night: 23.2.2023
several hours, with intermission
Traumatic content!
Schauspielhaus
Opening night: 23.2.2023
several hours, with intermission
Traumatic content!
‘What is it inside of you that could kill you?’
In our times, there are few horrors unheard of and unimaginable. The crimes ISIS committed against the Yazidi women in North Iraq are among them. Certain demons you slaughter from within. In “Licht”, director Tea Tupajić invites the Yazidi women to descend into themselves to try just that.
After a yearlong journey of preparation, the women come on stage to tell the story of what happened, exactly how they remember it. They bleed it out then and never again, part by part, until they can’t anymore. They do so, so that all that happened was not for nothing. With faith in theatre, they leave it with the audience.
Every night one part of the story will be told. LICHT lasts until the whole story is told.
For the stage, Tea Tupajić invited all the colleagues of Münchner Kammerspiele to together create a proscenium curtain. On the curtain, they embroidered by hand the stellar constellation of the sky in the night of the premiere. In each star, one person embroidered an image of that what is inside of them, that could have killed them.
“Licht I”, “Licht II” and “Licht III“ will be presented at the Münchner Kammerspiele.
A few other parts will be presented internationally, in theatres and festivals led by female artistic directors only.
The performance starts at 19 o’clock. It lasts several hours. The end is dependent on the decision of the performers.
Photo: Sima Dehgani
Photo: Sima Dehgani
Photo: Sima Dehgani
Photo: Sima Dehgani
Photo: Sima Dehgani
Photo: Sima Dehgani
Photo: Sima Dehgani
Photo: Sima Dehgani
Photo: Sima Dehgani
Photo: Sima Dehgani
Photo: Sima Dehgani
A production of the Münchner Kammerspiele in co-production with the Kaaitheater Brussels, the FFT Düsseldorf and the Lucerne Theatre.
In the frame of “Female Peace Palace“, a joint project by Münchner Kammerspiele and Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus. Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media).
In the frame of “Female Peace Palace“, a joint project by Münchner Kammerspiele and Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus. Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media).
- Storytellers Awaz Abdi, Najlaa Matto, Intisar Oso, und andere, die noch nicht erzählen möchten
- Directed by Tea Tupajić
- Dramaturgy and production Katrina Mäntele
- Dramaturgical advise Olivia Ebert, Mehdi Moradpour
- Stage and costumes Hannah von Eiff, Lisa Chiara Kohler
- Music Roel Meelkop
- Sound Viola Drewanz
- Light Charlotte Marr
- Curtain Awaz Abdi, Alyssia Achille, Erwin Aljukić, Barbara Biel, Lisa Braner, Dîlan Z. Çapan, Olivia Ebert, Hannah von Eiff, Leyla Ferman, Felicitas Friedrich, Gundula Gerngroß, Nicolas Hemmelmann, Josef Hofmann, Maria Hörger, Carolin Husemann, Iroha Kaneshiro, Melisa Kaya, Lisa Chiara Kohler, Simone Kremser, Nikolai Kuchin, Elvira Liesenfeld, Christine Maaß, Charlotte Marr, Katrina Mäntele, Jutta Masurath, Najlaa Matto, Heloà Pizzi Mauro, Roel Meelkop, Josh Menges, Mehdi Moradpour, Barbara Mundel, Ronya Othmann, Esther Patrocinio Sánchez, Barbara Patz, Annette Paulmann, Gina Penzkofer, Sandra Petermann, Katharina Quandt, Jeanette Raue, Sofie Reindl-Grüger, Stefanie Rendtorff, Steffen Roßmanith, Daniela Schroll, Anette Schultheiss, Sabine Schutzbach, Tea Tupajić, Constantin Weidenbach, Volker Wiltsch, Teresa Winkelmann, Yue Ying, und andere, die lieber unbekannt bleiben möchten, Katja Grawinkel-Claassen (FFT), Alicia Susanna Nsukami (FFT), Linda Kuhlen (FFT), Julia Lorenz (FFT), Lian Heüveldop (FFT), Judith Cermann (FFT), Sonja Klempert (FFT), Svenja Schlei (FFT), Sina Langner (FFT)
- Live interpretation Tea Tupajić
- Assistant director Dîlan Z. Çapan
- Costume assistance Heloà Pizzi Mauro
- Stage manager Stefanie Rendtorff
- Therapeutic and creative advisor Rik Vermeulen
- Reference person storytellers Leyla Ferman
- Artistic Administration Constantin Weidenbach
- Technical Management Carolin Husemann, Julia Schröder
- Stage master Marcel Homack
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Licht – all episodes
Licht I – Munich, Münchner Kammerspiele, 23.02.2023
Iraq, 2014. 9 o'clock in the morning it is already over 40 degrees hot. Family life. Trying to hold on / save daily routines. News, phone calls. IS is close. Not understanding. Fear.
With: Awaz Abdi, Najlaa Matto
Licht II – Munich, Münchner Kammerspiele, 25.02.2023
The IS is there. An escape into the mountains. People are left behind. An ultimatum passes. An entire village community is herded into a school. Women and children and men are separated: the men are taken away, shots.
With: Awaz Abdi, Intisar Ali, Najlaa Matto
Licht III – Munich, Münchner Kammerspiele, 15.04.2023
Information will follow
Licht IV – Brussels, Kaaitheater, 21.04.2023
For more information, click HERE
Licht V – Düsseldorf, FFT, Winter 2023
For more information, click HERE
Licht VI – Düsseldorf, FFT, Winter 2023
For more information, click HERE
Licht VII – Lucerne, Lucerne Theatre, 25.06.2024
For more information, click HERE
Licht VIII – Lucerne, Lucerne Theatre, 26.06.2024
For more information, click HERE
Licht IX – München, Münchner Kammerspiele
Information will follow
