Saturday October 8, 2011. 1900

An epic tale of female strength & sacrifice!
A night of outspoken female power with the heroines of Richard Wagner’s operas.

“Miss Very Wagner” is nothing less than a collision between opera and performance art that investigates love, war, heaven and earth in a breathtakingly intense, but also humorous collage of song, text and dance. Engelkes brings not only considerable wit and eloquence to her chosen subject, but also a language very much her own, something in between stand-up comedy and variety show, in this playful experiment with monumental myths.

By and with Charlotte Engelkes
Text Marina Steinmo, Charlotte Engelkes
Light Karl Svensson
Music Willy Bopp, Richard Wagner
Costume Lotta Nilsson
Duration app. 70 minutes

English spoken

Miss very Wagner is made with the kindly support of the Swedish Arts Council, the Cultural Department of Stockholm, The Arts Grants Committee and the Goethe Institute, Stockholm. Co-production: Sasha Waltz and Guests/Berlin, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg and Dansens Hus/Stockholm.

The one-woman-show Miss Very Wagner opened at Dansens Hus in Stockholm 2006 and has been shown at Euro-Scene Leipzig, Radial System Berlin, New Moves, International Glasgow, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Noorderzon Festival in Groningen, Gran Teater for Dans Aarhus, École supérieure d’arts et médias de Caen, Theatreworks Singapore amongst others.

Siegfried-The very Wagner Hero Hour with Lindy Larsson had premier in Dansens hus Stockholm 2011 and is the second part in Engelkes upcoming “The very Ring” with premier 2013.

Charlotte Engelkes has a solid background in modern dance and theatre. 1987 she started off working with Michael Laub/ Remote Control Productions. Charlotte has created numerous productions for her own company such as “SWEET”, “Fräulein Julie-The Musical” “Miss Jekyll and Hyde” “Eleven Lovely Lovesongs”, “Forellen and Me” as well as performed with Heiner Goebbels, Ong Keng Seng Raimund Hoghe, Charlotte is a member of Sasha Waltz & Guests since 2003.

Producer Birgit Lindholm

Excerpt of reviews

“The worlds most funniest Wagner!”

(Svenska Dagbladet)

“Charlotte Engelkes gives opera a leap forward. For being a performance aboutdying women, Miss Very Wagner is an incredibly funny story. Engelkes is clearly in her very best and most exhilarating mood when dealing with The Great Manly Art”

(Dagens Nyheter)

“Engelkes’ reflections on female experiences in the borderland between adaptability and liberation are a mixture of poetic earnest and mischievous ingenuity that takes one’s breath away. This performance will become legendary”

(Svenska Dagbladet)

“Immense love of opera and common sense is an unexpected combination, but is true of Charlotte Engelkes. It hits a serious point and something is told about life, death and love in spite of the hockey helmet on Brunhilde’s head. Or because of it.”

(Expressen)