Lalaei
Zwerm & Walpurgis
Music theatre
LALAEI
Sleep, sleep,
Give your sorrow, your pain to me.
Sleep, sleep,
The dark night will pass.
Soon, my child,
The sun will drive the winter cold away.
Only your father,
Oh, oh, if only he was here with me, with you.
In this unique collaboration, guitar quartet Zwerm and WALPURGIS with the percussionist Karen Willems, Iranian singer Sarah Akbari, English storyteller Marie Phillips and Israeli director Raphael Rodan seek out the dark edges of the apparently innocent songs used all over the world to sing children to sleep. They do this with a mythic story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses: the story of Procne, a queen, dutiful daughter, obedient wife and loving mother. Until the day she discovers that her sister has suffered a terrible injustice...
With songs in Turkish, Kurdish, Hebrew and Persian*
Spoken texts in English.
* And in Mazandarani (Iranian language spoken in northern Iran), Bakhtiari (a south-west Iranian dialect) and Qashqai (Turkic language related to Azerbaijani) etc.
Music: Zwerm, Karen Willems and Sarah Akbari
Storytelling: Marie Phillips
Director: Raphael Rodan
Scenographer: Stef Depover
Advisor: Judith Vindevogel
Coaching: Farnoosh Farnia
Podcast: Teletext
Producers: Zwerm and WALPURGIS
Coproducers: deSingel and Klara Festival
With the support of the Flemish Community and the City of Antwerp
24.04.2022
20:15 — 21:30
City theatre
Keizerstraat 3
Mechelen
30 % stories
20 % lullaby
50 % ear-opener
Location
Stadsschouwburg
Tickets
20 euro (-26: 12 euro)