M I N T
an Opera on Money
Premiered 25th - 28th March 2024 at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) part of “Who Owns the World?”
What remains of the working class in late capitalism? Is it really easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? “MINT: An Opera on Money” deals with the ambiguity, complexity and divisions caused by our relationship to money, social class and labour. Together with four performers and a music ensemble, dancer and choreographer Sheena McGrandles takes on the genre of opera and its formal conventions and overgrows it with the transformative potential of the popular traditions of Irish folk dance and song, personal biographies and anecdotes. “MINT” unfolds at the intersection of choreography, theatre, music and lived history - evoking the shame, guilt, pleasure and darkness connected to our individual and shared relationships to money and class. What lurks behind fortune or misfortune? And what would you do for money? |
Performance by and with: Michelle Cheung, Martin Hansen, Justin Kennedy, Claire Vivianne Sobottke / Direction, choreography, concept: Sheena McGrandles / Music composition: Stellan Veloce, with: Kaj Duncan David, Jana Sotzko, Sabrina Ma / Co-direction, dramaturgy: Mila Pavićević / Guest performer: Mickey Maher / Stage, costume design: Michiel Keuper, Julianne Längin / Lighting design: Annegret Schalke / Technical direction: Elliott Cennetoglu / Sound technician: Helen Heß / Choreographic assistance: Maria F. Scaroni / Production assistance: Vida Zelić / Stage assistance: Mireia Guzman / Choreographic outside eye: Maria F. Scaroni / Voice Coaching: Ignacio Jarquin, Molly Donnery, Evelyn Saylor / Irish Dance Coaching: Constantin Kirsten / Production: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro / Management: High Expectations / Distribution: Paz Ponce
Production: Sheena McGrandles. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, PACT Zollverein (Essen). Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds. As part of Zeitgeist Ireland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Irish Embassy in Germany. Thanks to: PSR collective, Uferstudios. | |||