I stand there, and I must think and I must muse, the way a dreamer gets lost in musing. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

What do we know about remembering? And how can we stem our forgetting? The forgotten is written into the remembering – like fateful conjoined twins. And – memory needs prostheses. The image, the song, a similarity in appearance, a voice. Gärten von Gestern, the newest production by ohnetitel, explores forms of collective and individual memory, and it takes those explorations to an unusual venue – Salzburg’s municipalcemetery. From a bird’s- eye perspective, the vast arena looks like a model of Manhattan. A geometric grid with a main artery, like Broadway, and narrower avenues to the left and right, which divide the graveyard into neighbourhoods with differing characters. Thus the geometry of the place provides a framework in the search for a geometry of memory. Ohnetitel stages a guided walk along the cemetery’s axis, with various levels, such as choreography, composition, text fragments, and dramatic way stations meeting and somehow subtly linking up. Gärten von Gestern, which is premiering at Sommerszene, invites the audience on a theatrical journey
with a brassband, ten gramophones, fifteen living pictures, and 213 photos; along the way, they will be inveigled onto byways, and enticed to new points of view.
At the 2015 Sommerszene, ohnetitel – network for theatre & art projects found enthusiastic audiences with ist project Die Loge, which turned the square in front of the main train station into a public stage. The collective is based in Salzburg and boasts members from theatre, dance, the visual arts, music, and film, so its work is characterised by the eclectic and unusual way it deals with formats.

When: Mi 21. and Do 22. Juni, Sa 24. Juni and So 25. Juni, 17:00 Uhr and 19:00 Uhr
Where: Kommunalfriedhof Salzburg, ± 70 min
Price: 16/8 € reduced
Infos to all Sommerszene-Projects: www.szene-salzburg.net

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