Life on Earth

Musical theatre by Thom Luz and ensemble
Tickets
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
Thu – 30. Jan 25, 20:00
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
Fri – 31. Jan 25, 20:00
Kammertheater
Stuttgart Premiere
Fr – 25. Oct 24

Tickets
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
Thu – 30. Jan 25, 20:00
https://www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de/ Schauspiel Stuttgart Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
Fri – 31. Jan 25, 20:00
Four people are stranded in an empty room, no longer able to escape - except by singing. Using songs and symphony fragments by Gustav Mahler, Thom Luz and his ensemble create a brief world history using only sounds. The production explores the musical capabilities of an empty hall on the verge of time, in which four singing, doubting figures are stranded, in order to rearrange Mahler's huge orchestral scoring into chamber music for quite unusual instruments.
Mahler's music bears the imprint of melancholy, of excessive demands and anxiety due to the fast-changing world around the turn of the centuries. It tells of the disruption and contradictions characteristical to our lives then and now, and translates these into symphonic and song-like narratives, torn between larger-than-life cheer and world-embracing sadness. Hence, somewhere between musical Robinsonade and abysmal Beckett waiting room an associative space about the life of the earth and its strange inhabitants opens up, in which one can rediscover Mahler as well as the connection between world weariness and optimism towards change.
Just like Mahler's songs and symphonies, Luz's musical theatre evenings deal with a cosmos of decline, despair, decay and worldly exhaustion - yet they never seem bleak; on the contrary, instead his works brim with quiet humour and enchantingly beautiful theatrical moments.
Concept / Staging / scenography
Musical Direction

Cast

Mara Miribung
Daniele Pintaudi
Samuel Streiff
*Gäste*Guests