Gloriette Trailer, 2024
Text, direction, costume and stage design Leila Hekmat
Music Roman Ole, Roman Lemberg
Choreography Shade Theret
Cinematography/editing Sven Gutjahr
Editing Manuela Aguilar
Sound Mix Gastón Ibarroule
Performers: Faggotta : Roman Ole,, Violante: Mickey Mahar, Lolly: Shade Theret, Cockatoo: Elena Francalanci, Twolip: Jette Lona Hermanis, Pantaloona: Mara Snip, Felice: Roman Lemberg, Sparky the Shoplifter: Samuel Pereira, Lost Customer: Aya Sone, Henriette Customer: Noah Lichtblau
Music ensemble: Miako Klein, Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue, Raivis Misjuns
“Whatta you wanna buy? Whatta you wanna buy? Whatta you wanna buy? Whatta you wanna buy? Whatta you wanna buy? You dont need that You dont need that You dont need that You dont need thatYou dont need thatYou dont need that. You don't want that old body let's just get a new one!”
Gloriette was presented at HAU1 Hebbel am Ufer Berlin in December 2024 with support from Haupstadtkulturfonds, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, & Callies Residency.
Gloriette is a tragicomedy about a derelict department store on the outskirts of Venice that is slowly sinking. Both manifesto and a musical comedy, this histrionic opera is dedicated to the breakdown of categories.
As the water slowly rises, the shop employees don’t seem very bothered as they go on adapting to the growing challenge of running a shop under water. The isolated group each tend to their idiosyncratic highly specialised departments, proudly awaiting customers who may never arrive. The scent of anarchy is near at hand and the current fad for believing that there is nothing left to believe in is everywhere apparent. What, then, are these post-apocalyptic workers holding on to? In this dying commodified world with its imposed categories and a fading semblance of order, they develop a (perverse) desire to be free, to be loved, to be together. In the midst of the sinking city of Venice, Gloriette is going to reveal the dead end of binary categories created and enforced through capitalism. And it will show how liberation from these categories is not radical but inevitable.
*All still images Amely Sommer
Gloriette Trailer, mix media video, 2024
Performed by Cassie Augusta Jørgensen
