Mothers – a song for Wartime / HOMO NOVUS 
Mothers – a song for Wartime / HOMO NOVUS
Show length (minutes):60
Creative teamMarta Górnicka (Poland)
Language:Ukrainian. Also in Polish and Belarusian. Over-titled in Latvian and English
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Show descriptionThe wartime rituals of violence against women never change.
War asks the ultimate questions: about responsibility in the face of danger, and about our defense mechanisms. Out of the testimonies of mothers and children—Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles: those who have fled war; those who have fled persecution; and, finally, those who have welcomed them in Polish homes—Marta Górnicka, polish director, creator of the CHORUS OF WOMEN and the founder of the Political Voice Institute at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, creates a choral performance with her ensemble.
“At a time when Ukraine is crying out, we need the theatre with its power of transformation. With its power to remember what is most monstrous. We need CHORUS – its practices of rebirth and recovery.” The chorus of mothers is made up of more than twenty survivors of war – witnesses to violence and bombings. They use the power of their voice to name the unnamable and to defend their cultural roots.
About artist.Marta Górnicka is a director, author, re-discoverer of the choral principle. Graduate of the Drama Directing Department at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw and Frederic Chopin School of Music in Warsaw. Górnicka creates a unique chorus theatre, where voices and bodies of performers, individually and combined, are intrinsically political instruments. She exploits a variety of choral formats to instigate confrontations with unbearable realities. Górnicka uses the stage as a platform to enact discourses of conflict and resolution, creating opportunities for members of communities to air their voices but also recognize each other’s common humanity. More information www.homonovus.lv.
