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The String Quartet's Guide to Sex and Anxiety

Calixto Bieito, Heath Quartet

What is the relationship between sex, fear and music? The Spanish director Calixto Bieito and the British Heath Quartet bring tragicomic musical theatre about melancholy and burnout. Several important philosophical works are Bieito’s sources of inspiration, like The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), an essay by Robert Burton, Platform (2003) by Michel Houellebecq and The Concept of Anxiety by Søren Kierkegaard. Four string players and four actors on stage reconstruct the melody of melancholy in a staging full of insanity, creativity and music. This show doesn’t have the cure, but you will feel better after seeing it.

What is the relationship between sex, fear and music? The Spanish director Calixto Bieito and the British Heath Quartet bring tragicomic musical theatre about melancholy and burnout. Several important philosophical works are Bieito’s sources of inspiration, like The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), an essay by Robert Burton, Platform (2003) by Michel Houellebecq and The Concept of Anxiety by Søren Kierkegaard. Four string players and four actors on stage reconstruct the melody of melancholy in a staging full of insanity, creativity and music. This show doesn’t have the cure, but you will feel better after seeing it.

Music performed by The Heath Quartet will include Beethoven string quartet no.11 opus 95 (the “serioso”), Op. 132 and Ligeti String Quartet No. 2.

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dates

Wed June 13 2018 10:30 PM

Thu June 14 2018 10:30 PM

information

  • English

  • Duration of performance unknown (geen pauze)

related

The following important philosophical works are Bieito’s sources of inspiration: 

 

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), an essay by Robert Burton,

Our Need of Consolation is Insatiable (2014) by Stig Dagermann,

Sleet: Selected Stories (2013) by Stig Dagerman,

My Age of Anxiety (2014) by Scott Stossel,

Wanting to Die (1981) by Anne Sexton,

Platform (2003) by Michel Houellebecq,

LOVE, LOVE - Unreconciled: Poems 1991-2013 (2017) by Michel Houellebecq,

The Noonday Demon (2002) by Andrew Solomon,

The Concept of Anxiety by Søren Kierkegaard

credits

direction Calixto Bieito design Calixto Bieito set design Calixto Bieito, Annemarie Bulla costumes Annemarie Bulla light design Tim Mitchell sound design Dan Hoole assistant directors Lucía Astigarraga, Laure Roldan producer Stuart Rogers, Catherine Fowles assistant producer Catherine Fowles performance Heath Quartet cast Nick Harris, Mairead McKinley, Miltos Yerolemu, Cathy Tyson costume supervisor Kay Wilton technique Ebrahim Nazier casting Gabrielle Dawes production manager Tomas Wright coproduction Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Brighton Dome, Holland Festival, Holland Festival, Brighton Festival

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