In this electronic opera, the girlies 💅🏼💄💋 will have to demonstrate the ability to answer a #thought-provoking question, the same ones they answer online 🖥️ everyday: Who are you? What do you look like? What is your dream? 😴

🤷‍♀️ 🙈 🤪 … so… uhm… 🙈 🤡 😂 WorLd pEAcE ☮ 🌍 ✌️ i guess… 🤡 😂 #pageant #protest #10sacrosstheboard 🏁 🤩 💃 but… like… does my answer even matter ⁉️ #hamlet #oPerA #2bORnot2b… cause – i mean c̵̢̬̩̫̃͋͝a̴̪̼̭͊͐̌͝p̶̟̰̤̍̇ǐ̵͔̙͚̬̓t̵̞̲̖̉͊͛̏͝ą̵̫̤̜̹̂̈̕ḷ̴̯̼́̍͘͘ĭ̶͇̜̲͊̓̋̃s̴̺̟̙͉͍̍̈́̽̒̋m̴̡͚͔͇̔͗͌ 🙄

The scenography concept was that our identity does not so much depend on ourselves, but rather on those we are in a network with. For this I wanted to work with very stretchy material and created 6m high socks that represented neurons and internet cables; or trees for many of the viewers. The actors move in the socks and form connections to each other as the opera progresses, so they are more and more affected by each other’s actions. At some point they clump together and present a compound more-than-human identity, as opposed to depicting individuals. Towards the end, the protagonist is enveloped by this clump, and in trying radically find an identity outside the network transforms into a horse, only to be immediately taken up by the network again.

Composition Jurgis Kubilius
Stage direction Rosa van Zonneveld
Scenography Iwan Vaandrager
Dramaturgy David Wolfswinkel
Production Jonna van Lierop, Annika Slee, Anne Fleur Vrakking
Performers Kiki J. Bazuine, Jona Cortenraad, Josie van der Ham, May Hollerman, Merijn Meijer, Ashaniya Rai, Merel Steensma
Photography Michel Schnater
Big thank you to: Tatyana van Walsum, Sjaron Minailo, Anton Kool, Pieter Loman, Ruud Boots, Gerko Min, Niek Gersen, Nikki van der Linden, Ben Broser, Ellen den Bouwmeester, Nancy Hulst en Willem Weemhof.