It's Time
"It’s Time" is a piece about the nature of time, featuring music and an unfortunately enchanted actress. She’s actually much younger than she appears and doesn’t have much time left, as the countdown to solve the riddle is on: what is time, and how should one act so that it doesn’t slip away or accidentally get killed? She only knows that music plays a pretty important role in this—probably even the leading role. Whether she’s celebrating her birthday, attempting complicated measurements, or tracking down the secret of metronomes, time keeps moving and doesn’t stop even for a moment to calmly read a text like this one, which might take about a minute to read. 35 seconds if you’re in a hurry. Then you can still have a glass of water.
After the two music theater productions (Planet Globokar and How Is Your Bird?) with music by Vinko Globokar and Frank Zappa, Manfred Weissensteiner (Theater am Ortweinplatz, Graz) and the Vienna-based ensemble Studio Dan, led by Daniel Riegler, are planning their third collaboration and production for a young audience. This time, the focus is less on the work of a single composer and more on a theme that the artistic collective, together with Belarusian composer Oxana Omelchuk, who lives in Cologne, and Graz-based author Johannes Schrettle, wishes to explore: time.
It’s Time - Music theater for children aged 8 and up with music by Oxana Omelchuk.
Besetzung
Kirstin Schwab – Performance
Studio Dan
Sophia Goidinger-Koch – violin
Maiken Beer – cello
Viola Falb – saxophone, bass clarinet
Damaris Richerts – trumpet
Raphael Meinhart – percussion
Manfred Weissensteiner – Concept, Director
David Valentek – Assistant Director
Daniel Riegler – Concept, Dramaturgy, Musical Director
Oxana Omelchuk – Composition
Johannes Schrettle – Text
Milena Czernovsky – Stage Design
Werner Angerer – Sound Director
Sebastian Schweighart – Light Director
A production by Studio Dan, TaO! – Theater am Ortweinplatz, Wien Modern and Wiener Konzerthaus.
Commissioned by Studio Dan, financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
