Alma Mahler

Valuing the heritage of our European cultural patrimony Denise Ababei aims to create and perform the monodrama Alma Mahler written by Sasho Dimoski within Eastern Theater international artistic residence.

Alma Mahler presents the imagined memories of a talented, passionate woman living in the shadow of a famous husband. The novel deals with Alma' s marriage to the distant and introverted Gustav Mahler, the Austrian late-Romantic composer and conductor, and with many intellectual and emotional sacrifices Alma makes in order to be a support for him. Throughout, Alma wrestles with the tension between her desire to be near genius and her growing awareness that all she ever receive in return for her sacrifice are the great man's silence and the pains of solitude.

Dimoski' Alma Mahler novel inspired Denise Ababei artistically to stage it and she hopes that her performance will delight the audiences from Lublin and everywhere.

With an impressive theoretical background, but also with a rich practical experience on the stage, the professional actress from Romania invites you to enjoy her theatrical performance together.

‘Alma Mahler’
Text: Sasho Dimoski
Directed by: Denise Ababei
Cast: Denise Ababei
Set and Light Design: Denise Ababei
Set designer assistant: Kosma Kozdraj
Light assistant: Damian Bakalarz
Music: Gustav Mahler' Symphonies 
Video: Jakub Szpyra, Alicja Wierzchowska, Łukasz Wójtowicz 
Video cast: Patrycja Malinowska, Aurelia Radomska. Beata Michałkiewicz, Anastasiia Pavlenko, Konstantin Novikov, Krystian Janiuk, Łukasz Niedźwiedź. 
Poster: Yeva Pyshnyk
Production assistant: Beata Michałkiewicz, Alicja Wierzchowska, Jakub Szpyra
Production: Eastern Theater

Co-funded by the European Union within the Culture Moves Europe residency program operated by Goethe-Institut.

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