HILDEGARD/KNEF
"Survival in a city pronounced dead. A city on the mend and making steady progress…the world becomes tangible, available, is waiting to be conquered."
Hildegard is ambitious. She fought in a war, sang songs, exposed her left breast, and cut if off. She can tell you what it means to be a woman in Berlin, a city in seventy year limbo between destruction, rubble and shiny new capitalism. Amongst the ruins of her past and a nation ravaged by war, HILDEGARD/KNEF explores a world of death, destruction and music, where everything is under occupation by memories.
Reviews
You can't take your eyes off her...Albert as Knef is mocking and wounded, savaging her audience and herself - The Age
Watching Knef unravel under the weight of her memories makes for fascinating viewing - Theatre Press
Affecting, lyrical and entertaining - Stage Whispers
The show is challenging, unsettling and worth it. HILDEGARD/KNEF will touch and break you and free you - Scott Semester, Indy Fringe
Show History
Originally created through development with directors Rachel Baring and Tanya Dickson
Reading at Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London, 2012
Originally programmed by Darebin Speakeasy with Melbourne Fringe, 2015
Indy Fringe, USA, 2019
Berlin Development with Dramaturgs: Geordie Brookman and Sonja Valentine, 2022
Sprechwerk Theater, Hamburg, 2022
Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof, Heidelberg, 2022
