Why don’t you sleep at night?

Why don’t you sleep at night?

Almost unbearable and with a poetic wink, Lia Schädler, Mayra Bosshard and Marquis’ McGee immerse themselves in a restless night. Surprised by restless organs and accompanied by their own heartbeat as a soundtrack, they celebrate a quiet reconciliation with insomnia.

The performers Lia Schädler, Mayra Bosshard and Marquis’ McGee observe their own inability to sleep and think of all the other people who involuntarily stay awake. In a precise dialog between movement and soundscape, the trio addresses the restlessness of thoughts, the loneliness before falling asleep and the feeling of a frozen inability to act. They help each other to fall asleep and yet prevent each other from doing so. Gentle saxophone sounds and restless background noise flow seamlessly into one another and the heartbeat echoes as the soundtrack of the waking night. Almost unbearable and with a poetic wink, they allow themes such as mental health, connectedness and anxiety to meet and celebrate a quiet reconciliation with insomnia…?

Note:
An intense soundscape is used in the performance of Why don’t you sleep at night (e.g. crackling, squeaking, humming, startling). Metaphorical vomiting and suffocation as well as stylized organs are also depicted on stage.

Credits:

Artistic direction, performance, concept: Lia Schädler

Artistic collaboration and performance: Mayra Bosshard

Artistic collaboration, music/Foley, performance: Marquis’ McGee

Artistic collaboration, Outside Eye & Brain: Luana Volet

Outside Eye: Olivia Ronzani

Stage, material development, graphics: Sophie Plattner

Landholz Productions

Landholz Productions is a Basel-based collective founded in 2018. They stand for collective working structures and individual artistic development, embedded in a support system. They work together and alone, help each other in production processes, support each other emotionally, exchange ideas about long-planned projects and spontaneous experiments, cook for each other during final rehearsals, and accompany each other in artistic questions. Their theater and dance work is critical, utopian, autofictional, humorous and collective.

Trailer: Why don’t you sleep at night

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