Licht

‘What is it inside of you that could kill you?’

In our times, there are few horrors unheard of and unimaginable. The crimes ISIS committed against the Yazidi women in North Iraq are among them. Certain demons you slaughter from within. In “Licht”, director Tea Tupajić invites the Yazidi women to descend into themselves to try just that.
After a yearlong journey of preparation, the women come on stage to tell the story of what happened, exactly how they remember it. They bleed it out then and never again, part by part, until they can’t anymore. They do so, so that all that happened was not for nothing. With faith in theatre, they leave it with the audience.

Every night one part of the story will be told. LICHT lasts until the whole story is told.

For the stage, Tea Tupajić invited all the colleagues of Münchner Kammerspiele to together create a proscenium curtain. On the curtain, they embroidered by hand the stellar constellation of the sky in the night of the premiere. In each star, one person embroidered an image of that what is inside of them, that could have killed them.

“Licht I”, “Licht II” and “Licht III“ will be presented at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

A few other parts will be presented internationally, in theatres and festivals led by female artistic directors only.

The performance starts at 19 o’clock. It lasts several hours. The end is dependent on the decision of the performers.