Based on: Ljod. by Vladimir Sorokin
Director, Design, Dramatization: ALVIS HERMANIS
Costumes, design: Monika Pormale
drawings: Harijs Brants
Dramaturgy: Brigitte Fürle
Concept Exhibition: Monika Pormale
Concept Exhibiton: Alvis Hermanis
Photography: Gints Malderis
Sounddesign: Voldemars Johansons
Emotion machines: Rudolf Bekic
Realisation: Design Agentur Pieci Ezeri, Riga / Rudof Bekic
Performers:
Gundars Abolins, Hannelore Albus, Inga Alsina, Jana Civzele, Katrin Grumeth, Jevgenijs Isajevs, Friederike Kammer, Andris Keiss, Mila Kouznetskaja, Ivars Krasts, Christian Kuchenbuch, Andreas Leupold, Jan Neumann, Joachim Nimtz, Moritz Peters, Varis Pinkis, Iveta Pole, Aleksandrs Radzevics, Regina Razuma, Edgars Samitis, Liena Smukste, Georgia Stahl, Antons Zamislajevs, Sandra Zvigule
Director, Design, Dramatization: ALVIS HERMANIS
Costumes, design: Monika Pormale
drawings: Harijs Brants
Dramaturgy: Brigitte Fürle
Concept Exhibition: Monika Pormale
Concept Exhibiton: Alvis Hermanis
Photography: Gints Malderis
Sounddesign: Voldemars Johansons
Emotion machines: Rudolf Bekic
Realisation: Design Agentur Pieci Ezeri, Riga / Rudof Bekic
Performers:
Gundars Abolins, Hannelore Albus, Inga Alsina, Jana Civzele, Katrin Grumeth, Jevgenijs Isajevs, Friederike Kammer, Andris Keiss, Mila Kouznetskaja, Ivars Krasts, Christian Kuchenbuch, Andreas Leupold, Jan Neumann, Joachim Nimtz, Moritz Peters, Varis Pinkis, Iveta Pole, Aleksandrs Radzevics, Regina Razuma, Edgars Samitis, Liena Smukste, Georgia Stahl, Antons Zamislajevs, Sandra Zvigule
Written by Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin, Ice (Ljod) tells the story of a mysterious sect in present-day Moscowhunting people with a "living heart." Of all the victims they have kidnapped, the only ones to survive are those whose hearts begin to "speak" on being struck with a hammer made of ice. After having undergone the ecstatic experience of this brutal "contact of the heart", the surviving victims of the attacks soon realise that they are no longer able to lead a normal life and that all their other feelings have suddenly become numbed. The victims who do respond to the "ice attack" find themselves part of a secret brotherhood whose collective spiritual strength is drawn from the primeval ice of the Siberian Tunguska meteorite. Members of Hitler's SS and Stalin's secret guard had once been among the followers of the sect, whose aim it was to do away with corrupt society and to return to an eternal state of existence.
Latvian director Alvis Hermanis staged the first part of the project in the spring at schauspielfrankfurt together with members of their ensemble.
At Gladbeck's Maschinenhalle Zweckel, the project entered its second phase. Together with the actors from Frankfurt and the ensemble of the Jaunais Rigas teatris (New Riga Theatre). The Gladbeck production was accompanied by a newly-created installation, integrated into the performance.
The conclusion of this European project, phase 3 of Ice, took place at the New Riga Theatre , in October 2005.
A work commissioned by the RuhrTriennale, co-produced with schauspielfrankfurt and Jaunais Rigas teatris
