»SUMMER THEATRE«

1 Piece of Musical Theatre by Joseph Hartmann & Franz Hautzinger

echoraum analyzes, in its experimental cycle of research on the phenomenology of »entertainment models«, the genre of »summer theatre«, using artificial and most artistic nonsense for voice, language, body and piano. The usual plot exists, if at all, only in the form of quotations. 7 fictitious, song-intoxicated pataphysical characters ( five ladies & two gentlemen, each with tail-coat and fat belly) & 1 pianist celebrate for about 90 minutes the contemporary »art of singing«. As a dramaturgical starting point, texts were selected from „De inventione cantus volxx. Poetische Grundlagentexte aus der dekonstruktivistischen Frühgeschichte der deutsch-französischen Cohabitation“ and „De translatione nursery-rhymes. Von den schwindelerregenden Möglichkeiten referentieller Verirrung im älteren angelsächsischen Liedgut“ by John Hulme.



By means of ambulant science, gay absurd farces of presumedly rhymed & popular folksongs, as well as the considerate high art of fun of annotations, there evolves an absurd-grotesque revue of pieces between a book of language experiments set to music and a dadaistic performance.

With the conceptional insertion of a dialogical layer and a music based narration entertaining decontextualized affairs of communication and the »ZEITGEIST« are established. (De)composed changes in rhythm and meaning of associative forms of popular musics evoke new absurd-comical forms of play with choral variations.

We spared neither pains nor footnotes to shape the exceptional evening
»summer theatre« into an event for your special musical pleasure.
Equal goes it loose.