DREAM MACHINE
Austrian premiere
DREAM MACHINE
Anke Retzlaff (DE)
A music performance from the collective dream archive
What do people dream about? In a unique mixture of theatre, performance and concert, DREAM MACHINE brings the world of dreams into a shared experience while fully conscious. Based on a monologue about an impossible farewell, a frenzied trip through the unconscious follows, in which the audience's dreams also resound..
The DREAM MACHINE starts in a telephone box. It is set up outside the venue a few days before the performance and offers visitors space to leave their dreams, longings and fears as audio messages. The dream archive has been growing since the premiere of the play in 2021, fed by voices from different origins and backgrounds.
From the dream memories and texts by the author Matin Soofipour Omam, an actress and three musicians then develop a concert performance that leads right through the unconscious.
In a polyphonic composition, the boundaries between dream and reality, between song and spoken word, electro and jazz are dissolved.
"We all have dreams - during the day and at night. Dreams, in which we can fly, a child gets lost or a snake dies. Do dreams find us or are we inventing them? And how is our dream world altered when a crisis strikes and reality is turned upside down?"
- Anke Retzlaff
Duration: 65 min.
Language: German
Note: Stage fog is used during the performance.
tickets & performances
prices: Category 2
Full price € 22 | Reduced: € 12 [Available in the NACHT combination ticket]
Theater am Werk / Kabelwerk
Oswaldgasse 35A, 1120 Vienna
Performance: Anke Retzlaff, Peter Florian Berndt (audio editing, sampler), Dominik Schad (drums), Lukas Schäfer (synthesiser)
Direction and concept: Anke Retzlaff
Composition: Peter Florian Berndt, Jo Beyer, Anke Retzlaff, Lukas Schäfer
Co-director, Outside Eye: Paul Jumin Hoffmann
With texts by: Matin Soofipour Omam
Dramaturgy: Katharina Rösch
Stage: Marie Gimpel, Karolina Wyderka, Sabine Mäder
Costumes: Karolina Wyderka
Lighting design: Philippe Waldecker
Sound: Anna Jungfer
Technical management: Philippe Waldecker
Phone box design & programming: Marco Schretter, Philippe Waldecker, Karo Wyderka
Production: Dilan Aytaç
The production was supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste, with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste.
ANKE RETZLAFF is an actress, musician and director. After studying music (singing, violin, piano) at the Hanover University of Music, she studied acting at the Rostock University of Music and Drama. In addition to various theatre and film engagements, she also works as a musician and theatre director. Her work is characterised by a high degree of interdisciplinarity.
