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Naif, naif, triton trot and water choir! This or some such similar sound is that of a Pacific giant newt population rising to world power by threatening humanity. Distinct white noise, pelagic mewling, romance is dead! The future belongs to the newts! After their debut piece “Der Fleischgarten” at Mousonturm last year, the Frankfurt music and performance duo Les Trucs attempts a new interpretation of the literary classic “The War with the Newts” by Karel Čapek. Together with actress Beatrice Frey, multi-instrumentalist Bastian Hagedorn and all sorts of electronic devices, they flood the Mousonturm hall with text, sound and language fragments to tell Čapek’s fantastic story, written 1936 as one of the first science-fiction novels – a surprisingly prophetic ride through a world of today marked by exclusion, greed and power struggles.

Directon, composition, music, performance: Les Trucs
(Charlotte Simon & Toben Piel)
Text: Karel Čapek, translated by Eliska Glaserová
Speaker: Beatrice Frey
Livemusic, performance: Bastian Hagedorn
Assistence: Jascha Bernhard
Technical direction: Matthias Rieker
Sound: Fernando Castro
Production management: Lisa Gehring
Dramaturgy: Anna Wagner

Funded by Musikfonds e. V. with project funds of the Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, by  the Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst and the Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main as well as Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.

The festival „Unfuck my future. How to live together in Europe” is funded within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media of Germany as well as the Federal Agency for Civic Education.