Two performances share the big stage at Frankfurt LAB with a short intermission!

Emigrant Songs
Nastya Dzyuban

In “Emigrant Songs,” four performers weave voices, bodies, and threads into a shared landscape. As a camouflage net slowly takes shape, folk songs inspired by the Polissya/Palesse region overlap and carry fragments of home across borders. Between weaving and singing, they explore cultural camouflage and the silent negotiations of migration—and ask how a voice can remain present while searching for a place to belong.

Initiated by Nastya Dzyuban; developed and performed by: Nastya Dzyuban, Olen Mamai, Hanna Launikovich, and Andrii Punko.
Costumes: Delphina O. Hennig, Andrii Punko
Woodwork and emotional support: Nice Kager
Mediation & accompaniment of folk singing: Tetiana Illchenko, Dariia Bakalova, and the folk music group Bozhedary
Sound design: Hanna Launikovich
Technical support: Felix Schwarzrock

A big, heartfelt thank you to: Bernhard Siebert, Frédéric de Carlo, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Barbara Krzoska, Chiara Marcassa, Jenny Flügge, Florian Ackermann and the Frankfurt Lab team, Ida Daniel and the IX ProsoziTé collective, Weben Gruppe, Melika Moazeni, Fabian Schäfer, and Mania Kllectiv

Supported by Kulturamt Frankfurt and Gesellschaft Freunde internationales Theater Frankfurt.

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Justice wins. Or groping in the dark
ASJA

At the beginning: a murder. At the end: the solution. In between: completely unclear.
Wearing trench coats, casting long shadows, and brimming with brilliant self-confidence, ASJA and René Alejandro Huari Mateus approach the figure of the master detective as we know him from series such as True Detective, Sherlock, Twin Peaks, Tatort, TKKG, or Kalle Blomquist.
A mysterious case, a crackling radio, and the stage as the scene of the crime.
In front of a gathered audience, our detectives question their longing for complete enlightenment and examine their desire for a genre that is as mysterious as it is violent.

Content note:
The performance deals with the crime genre and addresses the themes of violence, death, murder, and police on a linguistic and visual level. There is a rag doll on stage that serves as a corpse and a toy gun without ammunition. There may be gunshot noises and a sudden bang. At times, the stage is dimly lit or dark, and there is fog and vaping.

By and with: ASJA, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Maren Ada Küpper, Nora Schneider, Felix Schwarzrock

Supported by Kulturamt Frankfurt and Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst.