Marta Górnicka
Mothers – A Song for Wartime
No matter who wins, at the end
war is always the real winner, baby!
M. G.
The language of war is always the same, through space and time. The monstrosities, the rapes of women, the exhaustion of civilians, the destruction of life return within the tense international reality. Inside this cruel historical observation, Mothers – A Song for Wartime seeks all that remains from one’s voice, when violence has ruined even the possibility for speech.
Twenty-one women meet on stage. They come from Ukraine, from Belarus, and from Poland, and their ages span from 9 to 71 years old. A Chorus made up of mothers and daughters, survivors and witnesses of the havoc wrecked by war that function here as bearers of different lives and political experiences. Amongst them are refugees from Mariupol, Kyiv, Irpin, and Kharkiv, women that were persecuted, and women who opened their homes to host others. The testimonies of mothers and children, displaced from the war, become the material for a theatrical play uttering a collective accusation.
Founder of the CHORUS OF WOMEN in Warsaw and the POLITICAL VOICE INSTITUTE in Berlin, Marta Górnicka gives voice to a body of many faces, a carrier of the memory of women’s polyphonic traditions through the years. The work begins with a shchedrivka, a traditional Ukrainian well-wishing song, linked to renaissance and the revival of life. Ukrainian folk songs, children rhymes, lullabies, spells, and political phrases compose a dense soundscape, where individuals survive within the group.
These women bring onstage their lived experienced as a common breath. It is their way of resisting cruelty, with songs becoming a way to remember, to take care of each other; to survive.
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