DIE VIELEN STIMMEN MEINES BRUDERS

Inclusive sibling story with drama, puppets and music

A brother and his sister are holding a voice casting. The brother will need a new voice. A genetic defect causes his own to give up the ghost. Together they set out to find a voice with which he can continue to speak. Or rather: many voices! One for every imaginable situation in life. And his sister? She writes down everything that is involved in the search for a new voice: the right sentences and the wrong questions. Plus all the thoughts about what it means to write what others say and to speak what others have written. Her brother wants one thing above all: not only to borrow voices, but also the right to raise them. And himself along with it. So the two take off together to find out what else is possible.

The author Magdalena Schrefel, who was recently awarded the Robert Walser Prize, takes her own family constellation as the starting point for her play about the longings and fantasies, the fear and the hope that a sister and her brother can share. Marie Bues and Anouschka Trocker stage this sibling story with voice recordings from the radio play produced in parallel in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Ö1. The result is a stage version with actors with and without disabilities who lend their bodies to the many voices. Marie Bues returns to the Kunstfest for the third time, following her world premieres of texts by Sivan Ben Yishai (2020) and Thomas Köck (2021). With the new season, she takes over the co-directorship of the re- nowned Schauspielhaus Wien and presents her first work for the new house in Weimar.