From Morning to Midnight

2020

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In the spring of 2020 theaters were forced to close their doors. So what did we do? We took our performance out to the streets and adapted it into a hybrid of site specific live performance with voice & sound components streamed live to the audience’s smart phones creating an experience of an urban pilgrimage.

Our comtemporisation of Georg Kaiser’s expressionist and anti-capitalist morality play From Morning to Midnight from 1912 consisted seven stations around the Copenhagen Nordvest area. The audience attended into a procession arriving to the stations one by one. At these stations they experienced a movement installation, a scene or a video. Along the journey to the next station from their headphones they listened to a soundscape, a dialogue, an interview or a podcast around the central themes of beauty, death, racing, sex, power, social media and salvation.

In this piece I played the part of Death, following the audience and the main character throughout the play in the streets of Copenhagen NV area.

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Creators & Performers Lia Goresh, Heiðdís Hlynsdóttir, Atte Hänninen, Karri Karjalainen, Minna Koponen, Delya Messadi, Henna Mäki-Filppula, Ina Raunio, Anna Reini, Milda Sutkeviciute

Director Lars Henning

Graphic Design Minna Koponen

Photography Constantin Gindele

Trailer, consultation and additional video editing Rasmus Flensborg

Produced by CISPA

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