A hauntingly silent and intimate affair awaits when Silent Zone invites you inside a dysfunctional family. A taboo incident has taken away the daughter’s language in the house, and instead her brother must investigate and confront the past on both of their behalf. Louise Alenius wrote her English libretto after collecting statements from people who have had the abuse close to them – and knows how difficult it is to break a taboo once it has settled in the walls of the home, in the family, in the body.
Venue: The substation and Malmö Operahouse
Actors
The mother Gitta-Maria Sjöberg
Father Sten Byriel
The son Morten Grove Frandsen
Daughter Ying-Hsueh Chen
Musicians
Violin Louise Gorm
Viola Jenny Lüning
Cello Lea Emilie Brøndal Pedersen
Double bass Andreas Hjorth Jessen
Piano Louise Schrøder
Others
Composer and librettist Louise Alenius
Director Tue Biering
Scenography Ida Grarup Nielsen
Creative developer and initiator: Tine Juul Reingaard
Caster and physical dramaturg: Sosha Teperowska
Lighting design: Martin Danielsen
The family in flashbacks: Alfred Kann, Mona Alenius Kaniewski, Jeanette Lindbæk Birk, Kenneth Andersson
Supported by the Danish Composer Association’s Production Pool and KODA’s Cultural Funds.
