DAUGHTERS OF THE FUTURE
waltraud900
“I want to see the world. The northern lights, the oceans. Learn to sail. Be a carefree child again. For the life of me, I want to listen to my inner voice. For the life of me, I want to stop worrying about what other people think of me. Just be. Just be angry. Loudly angry.”
It’s the calm before the storm. The largest fleet in the history of war, with its thousands of ships and armies from all over Greece, is stuck in the port of Aulis. A week-long calm paralyses their sails, preventing them from leaving for Troy, where King Agamemnon intends to wage war.
The unrest spreads and a sacrifice is demanded to please the gods: his daughter Iphigenia must die. When Iphigenia realises her fate, she does not resist, but welcomes her own death. Please what?
Together with a choir of young people, waltraud900 questions the material from today’s perspective and reinvents the story of Iphigenia. Is Iphigenia a heroine? What sacrifices are the daughters of the future no longer available for? Is it possible to resist the family at all? And what do we stand for?
DAUGHTERS OF THE FUTURE was awarded the Integration Prize of the City of Düsseldorf 2024 and was selected as one of 15 productions for the interim selection of the Theatertreffen der Jugend in Berlin.
Cast & Credits
Concept and idea: waltraud900
On stage: Sadeen Atiyyat, Layan Baker, Aylin Çelik, Sera Demiral, Oleksandra Dolobovska, Nora Gliemann, Anahit Grigorian, Ghazal Hambaroush, Luca Imamoglu, Antonia Kopach, Anouk Aimée Küster, Lia Laubeck, Laila Rascón Motta, Samuel Murdo Macnab, Tuana Nar, Holali Oumata, Anastasia Rodana, Juliette Serrié, Maya Seuken
Directed by: Bianca Künzel and Nazli Saremi
Choreography: Phaedra Pisimisi
Set design: Ria Papadopoulou
Music and spoken word: Aylin Çelik
Music and percussion: Juliette Serrié
Dramaturgy: Dorle Trachternach
Co-direction: Hannah Boecker
Video/Social Media: Nemo Hansen
Production management: Katrin Wiesemann
Communication: Susanne Ruprecht
Song “Waiting”: Oleksandra Dolobovska
Co-production partner: FFT Düsseldorf, cooperation partner: Lernort Studio Düsseldorf; funded by the NRW State Centre for Political Education, the NRW Ministry of Culture and Science (Diversity Fund) and the NRW State Office for Independent Performing Arts.
About the artists
waltraud900 is an international collective of female artists from Düsseldorf, consisting of choreographer Phaedra Pisimisi, director Bianca Künzel, set designer Ria Papadopoulou and dramaturge Dorle Trachternach, who continuously conduct research in various collaborations with other artists and institutions. In their works, the artists address contemporary questions of identity and social affiliations. Interdisciplinary work and multilingualism are an essential basis for this. waltraud900 develops sustainable concepts that are fluid, thus reacting to current developments and continuously making the existing diversity of NRW’s art scene visible.
