Salon Q is a piece of free musical theatre, a collection of compositions, music performances, happenings, installations, texts, pictures and videos all based around a string quartet. With this production Evan Gardner confronts the myths of musical theatre by radically reducing and reinterpreting his available material, breaking down traditional performance practices. A dialectical game is developed between individual interests and communal desires, between tradition and innovation, between the salon culture of string quartet and the fabled end of the Beatles. And all the while, four musicians sit on stage rubbing horse hairs against sheep-intestine casings.
Instrumentation: Two performers, string quartet
(two violins, viola, ’cello)
Composer: Georg Nussbaumer / Director: Evan Gardner
Stage-design & Costume-design: Martin Miotk
Video: Swen-Erik Scheuerling
Musical Direction and Realisation:
Antoine Daurat und HannaH Walter
Photographer: Xiomara Bender
Makeup: Martin Rink
Dramaturgy: Michael Höppner
Duration: ca. 70 min
Photography: Martin Miotk ©
Patrick Schleuter: Violin
Mia Bodet: Violin
Louis Bona: Viola
Nora Krahl: Violoncello
Georg Bochow: Performance
Nolundi Tschudi: Performance