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In a large blue stage space stands a 4-metre-wide water tank. Around it stand fully or partially naked women holding fishing rods in the tank. In the centre, a naked woman hangs from a ribbon that she holds only with her teeth.
© Gordon Welters
In a large blue stage space stands a 4-metre-wide water tank. Around it stand fully or partially naked women holding fishing rods in the tank. In the centre, a naked woman hangs from a ribbon that she holds only with her teeth.
© Gordon Welters

Florentina Holzinger

Ophelia's Got Talent

Summer Festival all-time favourite comes to the Elbe with its water spectacle invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen.

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44 / 36 / 24 / 14 Euro (conc. from 9 Euro, 50% conc. with Festivalkarte)

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Possible triggers: live tattoo & piercing, strobe light, loud music

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Thursday

8/17/23

7:30 PM

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Friday

8/18/23

7:30 PM

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Saturday

8/19/23

7:30 PM

At last years Summer Festival Florentina Holzinger stunned the audience with the hell ride A DIVINE COMEDY. Now she returns with OPHELIA’S GOT TALENT, which premiered at Volksbühne, sold out permanently for months in advance, was invited to Theatertreffen and is dedicated to the wet element. With Houdini tricks, ballet-historical refer-ences from John Neumeier’s “Little Mermaid” to Frederick Ashton’s “Ondine” and graceful stunts, Holzinger and her 21-member crew tell of water creatures and their cultural history. This maximalist water spectacle takes apart art genres just as much as male fantasies. Based on Shakespeare’s Ophelia, the performers narrate and overwrite their traumas through the selfdetermined, controlled flirtation with mortal danger. Whereby Ophelia’s walk into the water, according to the jury of the Berliner Theatertreffen, “is reinterpreted as an empowerment strategy: from survival mode to a mad spectacle.”

A yellow helicopter hangs from ropes in a stage area. Five naked women are attached to the helicopter with harnesses around their waists and ropes, another sits in the cockpit with a headset.
© Gordon Welters
In a dark, purple-lit stage space, a naked woman kneels, holding a hand to her forehead in a shielding manner and opening her mouth wide. In the background, two women climb the ladders to a large box.
© Nicole Marianna Wytyczak
In a dimly lit, very dark stage space there is a large container which is climbed by a naked woman over a ladder. Next to it is a cello, in the foreground a shallow pool of water.
© Nicole Marianna Wytyczak
Three naked women with mermaid-like fish tails swim in a dimly lit, murky water tank. In the foreground, another naked woman lies on her side in the dark, her face barely visible.
© Nicole Marianna Wytyczak
In a large blue stage space stands a 4-metre-wide water tank. Around it stand fully or partially naked women holding fishing rods in the tank. In the centre, a naked woman hangs from a ribbon that she holds only with her teeth.
© Gordon Welters

Concept, Direction Florentina Holzinger With Melody Alia, Saioa Alvarez Ruiz, Inga Busch, Renée Copraij, Sophie Duncan, Fibi Eyewalker, Paige A. Flash, Florentina Holzinger, Annina Machaz, Xana Novais, Netti Nüganen, Urška Preis, Zora Schemm and Stella Adriana Bergmann, Golda Kaden, Lea Schünemann, Nike Strunk, Laila Yoalli Waschke, Fiene Kaever Sounddesign Stefan Schneider Music Paige A. Flash, Urška Preis, Stefan Schneider Stage Nikola Knežević Lightdesign Anne Meeussen Videodesign Melody Alia, Jens Crull, Max Heesen Live-Camera Melody Alia Dramaturgy Renée Copraij, Sara Ostertag, Fernando Belfiore, Michele Rizzo Dramaturgy Volksbühne Johanna Kobusch Production Katharina Wallisch, Stephan Werner Tourmanagement Dana Tucker Management, International Distribution Katharina Wallisch & Giulia Messia – neon lobster

Produced by der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz und Spirit Coproduction Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam, Tanzquartier Wien, Arsenic Lausanne, asphalt Festival, Gessnerallee Zürich, DE SINGEL Antwerpen. Funded by der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien sowie dem Bundeskanzleramt für Kunst und Kultur.