Multisensory Music Theatre by the Artist Collective [in]operabilities

“Now is the moment. Now we have met and are together. Now we want to tell each other stories. Who is he? Who is she? I am infinitely curious and don’t know what’s to come,” writes Virginia Woolf in The Waves (1931). Told in a polyphonic stream of consciousness, the novel portrays the lifelong friendship of six very different people, intense encounters, childhood, ageing, and death.

Direction, adaptation & video: Benjamin van Bebber
Composition & musical direction: Leo Hofmann
Performance: Sophia Neises, Sabrina Ma, Matteo Fargion, Christine Korfant, Emil Leske, Marla Breuker
Composition "Bernard": Matteo Fargion
Dramaturgy: Franziska Henschel
Direction assistance: Jeanne Charlotte Vogt
Sign language dramaturgy: Philipp Wacker, Susanne Tod
Audio description dramaturgy: Pernille Sonne, Jeanne Charlotte Vogt
Stage design: Lea Kissing
Costume: Merle Richter
Production: Nina Klöckner / ehrliche arbeit
Press & communications: Claire Diraison
Direction & production assistance: Sofia Chionidou
Video assistance: Michael Brailey
Concept, production & communications: [in]operabilities, Benjamin van Bebber, Franziska Henschel, Leo Hofmann, Jeanne Charlotte Vogt
Interpreting: Christina Müller, Nicole Ostrycharczyk, Marie Schaper, Clara Bosse

The Waves is a production by [in]operabilities in co-production with Kampnagel, Gare du Nord Basel, and Radialsystem Berlin. [in]operabilities is supported through structural funding from the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and by the Performing Arts Fund, with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The Waves is additionally funded by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, the Music Committee BS/BL, the Rusch Foundation, and Fondation Suisa.

Accessibility
The Waves is accessible to a wide range of sensory experiences. It is presented in written and spoken German, German Sign Language (DGS), and sung audio description, and developed using blind dramaturgy. During audience entry, DGS interpreters are present.
Introduction & tactile tour
Before each performance, there is an introduction to the piece including a tactile stage tour as a sensory exploration.

Foto (c) Robin Hinsch