Bridge Markland: nathan in the boxgo drag! munich
Lessing's "Nathan the Wise" for the pop music generation: Bridge Markland juggles classical text lines and pop music quotations with virtuosity and undermines fixed role attributions along the way. She switches rapidly between performance, puppetry and playback and dusts off the classic material for a wide audience. (in German)
Lessing's "Nathan the Wise" for the pop music generation: Bridge Markland juggles classical text lines and pop music quotations with virtuosity and undermines fixed role attributions along the way. She switches rapidly between performance, puppetry and playback and dusts off the classic material for a wide audience. (in German)
Welcomed by “Burning Down the House” (Talking Heads), Nathan returns home after a long journey. Fortunately, his daughter Recha is rescued in time by the hero who, like an angel, saves her from the fire: “Send Me an Angel” (Scorpions) Lessing’s parable focuses on people rather than their origin or even religion – and is therefore more topical than ever. Humanity
and tolerance can overcome divides and make peaceful coexistence possible. This message, fast-paced and catchy, carried by a tapestry of well-known pop songs, is excellently embodied and presented in Bridge Markland’s one-woman puppet transformation playback show.
- Idea, sound collage, co-direction, performance: Bridge Markland
- Co-director, Dramaturgy: Nils Foerster
- Sound design: Tom Hornig
- Puppets, costume design, props: Eva Garland
- Speakers: Iris Boss (as Daja), Cora Frost (as Sittah), Lance Girard (as Dervish), Markus von Lingen (as Templar), Thomas Nicolai (as Sultan Saladin/ Patriarch), Ingo Volkmer (as Nathan), Ewa Ziegenbein (as Recha), Frank Zimmermann (as Monastery Brother)
Language: German
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Initiator of the go drag! munich (+ Berlin 2002 & 2022)
The Berlin performer is a virtuoso of role play and transformation. An artist who effortlessly crosses boundaries between dance, theatre, performance, cabaret and puppet theatre. Her speciality are gender performances, in which the audience experiences her transformation from female to male, or vice versa. Markland is a pioneer of drag and gender performance in Germany, and has organised drag king events, tours and festivals since 1994.
Funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of Neustart Kultur / #TakeAction
In cooperation mit Pathos Munich
