RUHE

Tuesday May 26, 2009 - Thursday May 29, 2009
At 08:00 PM

The Salon, National Museum of Singapore
49 Armenian Street
Singapore, Central Singapore

RUHE
Muziektheater Transparant / Collegium Vocale Gent (Belgium) Asian Premiere

A spellbinding theatre event where a recital of beautiful Schubert songs is interrupted by people who wish to talk about their voluntary enlistment in the SS in 1940. Based on real interviews with Nazi collaborators during the Second World War. This serves as a reminder that evil is never far away.

A spellbinding recital of Schubert is abruptly disrupted by some individuals who wish to confess their voluntary service in the SS.Drawing on an archive of 1960s interviews conducted with Dutch veterans who enlisted with the Nazis in 1940, RUHE is verbatim theatre recounting the experience of those who cannot seem to shake off the demons of their past.

Through songs, soliloquies and images, we are witnesses to confessions in a gripping performance that unveils the ambivalence between victim and perpetrator in the historical experience of continental Europe.

“One of the most original, haunting and troubling productions I have encountered in 20 years of Edinburgh Festival visits.” – Daily Telegraph

“…so rich, so intelligent, so profound, that its effect is not depressing; but full of the sense of a great truth, told with a subtlety and integrity that lifts the heart.” – The Scotsman

Muziektheater Transparant, based in Antwerp, Belgium, is forever seeking risks and taking chances. It is involved in everything, but the grand opera with its classical repertory and thick-set singers beneath crystal chandeliers. Their starting point is always the human voice. Songs or theatre, amateurs or professionals, new or old, - they have it all. Transparant also breathes new life into older works, plays works that have been forgotten and the unknown, as well as the familiar, pumping new blood and energy into the customary opera.

• Date: 26-29 May 2009, Tue-Thur, 08:00PM
• Duration: Approx 75 mins (no intermission)
• Venue: The Salon, National Museum of Singapore
• Ticket Price (Exclude Booking Fee): Standard - S$36