Yul | Redfern - MamaNoSing MAMA MEGA

Performance Tanz

Performative dance and music theatre about motherhood, mental load and gaming.
Four women, mental load and a virtual superheroine. Following their highly successful Chekhov adaptation Sistas! at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and the audience-acclaimed Nestroy adaptation Cypressenburg at Vienna’s Burgtheater, director Isabelle Redfern and choreographer Ute Pliestermann combine postpartum depression and gaming to create a wild ride into empowerment. While one mother flees to the bathroom when her children stress her out, the other petrifies when she is overwhelmed by her fears of child death. They all end up with the headstrong psychologist Mrs Wu, who sends them not to the therapeutic sofa but to the world of online games. There they meet superheroine Mama Mega, who has everything under control by breaking taboos and parenting rules.
Fear, exhaustion, loneliness and aggression are catapulted into the virtual world and from there back into reality in a furious and dance-like manner. Mental Load is not the final destination, but a construct that is pulverised on stage. Musically, pianist MING pulls the strings and plays everything from baroque and romantic to folk and pop that women have ever composed. Game over. Dance now. The liberation begins.

With MINGUte PliestermannIsabelle RedfernSylvana Seddig
Text: Ava Tabita Yul
Director: Isabelle Redfern
Choreography: Ute Pliestermann
Stage: Lani Tran-Duc
Costume: Flavia Stein
Video: Zé de PaivaKathleen Kunath
Text: MamaNoSing