The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was founded in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre on 30 December 1922. 100 years later, the critic, curator, and theater-maker Marina Davydova created the “Museum of Uncounted Voices.” She demonstrates how the borders of the national republics within the USSR came into being, why those borders today have proved to be time bombs, and to what extent the cultures of the countries that once made up the Soviet Union have always differed. Visitors enter a space stylised as a museum that comes to life before their eyes, transforming itself and offering an expedition through complex contexts. The itinerary itself proceeds from an apparently objective historiography to the contradictory and the existentially biographical.
Concept, Text, Direction: Marina Davydova
Actors: Marina Weis / Chulpan Khamatova
Set design: Zinovy Margolin Voices: Odin Biron (Episode I EMPIRE), Jamal Ali, Luka Kalandadze, Igor Shugaleev, Gurgen Tsaturyan, Oleksandr Yatsenko (Episode II NATIONS), Jamal Ali, Odin Biron, Marina Davydova, Boris Falikov, Luka Kalandadze, Alexey Kokhanov, Elizaveta Petrova, Farrukh Pirov, Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Igor Shugaleev, Gurgen Tsaturyan, Ekaterina Voronova, Oleksandr Yatsenko (Episode IV PEOPLE) Music: Vladimir Rannev Video: Oleg Mikhailov Light design and sound: Iurii Galkin Design: Jürgen Fehrmann, Gea Gosse Costumes: Marcus Barros Cardoso, Vera Liulko, Aleix Llusa Lopez
Commissioned by HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Wiener Festwochen
Co-production: Theater Freiburg