Playing on Nerves. A Punk Dream
Nicoleta Esinencu & teatru-spălătorie/HAU
With her texts and productions, Nicoleta Esinencu currently belongs to the strong voices working within Europe. With her theater collective, she develops uncomfortable topics for the stage in a powerful, musical and sharply humorous way. Her latest work also continues the critical examination of history and the present from an Eastern European perspective.
In the Republic of Moldova, the triumph of the capitalist system and technological progress have changed everything in recent decades. A future which is thought of as a communal project with good living conditions for all has become a distant dream. Today we live in a world in which there is less and less togetherness but for that increasingly exploited, alienated and stressed egos. The system wants us to work tirelessly and never sleep. The second part of the trilogy “Symphony of Progress” reclaims the right to tell the story of the East from the East and the right to re-imagine an alternative to capitalism. With interviews and field reports, Nicoleta Esinencu and the collective teatru-spălătorie are creating a new archive that makes voices from Eastern Europe audible. This is how “Playing on Nerves. A Punk Dream” becomes a nightmare of capitalism.
Duration: ca. 1 h 45 min
Language: Moldovan Romanian, English, Russian and German with German and English surtitles
Following the performance on 03.10. there will be an audience discussion.
There will be moments of elevated noise levels during the event.
Nicoleta Esinencu (born 1978, Chișinău, USSR/Republic of Moldova) lives and works as an author and director in Chișinău. She studied playwriting at the State University of Arts. In 2010, Esinencu co-founded the independent initiative teatru-spălătorie. Since the venue had to close in 2017, the women’s collective teatru-spălătorie has continued its work without its own stage. In 2022, Nicoleta Esinencu & teatru-spălătorie received the Tabori International Award.
By: Nicoleta Esinencu, teatru-spălătorie
Team: Nicoleta Esinencu, Artiom Zavadovsky, Doriana Talmazan, Kira Semionov, Nora Dorogan, Ciprian Marinescu
Performance: Artiom Zavadovsky, Doriana Talmazan, Kira Semionov
Technical implementation: Neonil Roșca
Technic: Sergiu Iachimov
Artistic consultation: Aenne Quiñones (HAU)
Production management: Jana Penz (HAU)
Technical management: Annette Becker (HAU)
Sound: Janis Klinkhammer
Light: Lea Schneidermann (HAU)
Moldavian Romanian to German translation: Ciprian Marinescu, Frank Weigand
Moldavian Romanian to English translation: Artiom Zavadovsky
Editor english translation: Tallulah Rubee Fegan
Production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer und teatru-spălătorie
Coproduction: FFT Düsseldorf, HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden
Supported by: Capital Cultural Fund. The revival is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the Alliance of International Production Houses.
