Lonely Hearts Bus Tour MusikTexte

Composer Evan Gardner finds the material for this shrill confrontation with the hardships of a generation

11/2018

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In their self-produced ‚Lonely Hearts Bus Tour’ show Opera Lab Berlin relocates the self-discovery trip of an entire generation of young Berliners

in a flickering and brutally modern way into a scrapped and modified bus, in which the audience together with the musicians undertakes an odyssey through the last stages of a broken relationship. Composer Evan Gardner finds the material for this shrill confrontation with the hardships of a generation left behind in the nocturnal capital’s stories about club nights and drug excesses. The bus becomes a cipher for rootlessness and forced mobility, making coming to rest an impossibility.

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