If stones could speak, what might they say?

Perhaps, in their rock-hard silence, they nevertheless 'speak' as silent witnesses of what has gone before, as prophets of that which might be said afterwards regarding the results of war, destruction, and displacement. What fragments of past(s) are disclosed when stones 'speak'?

In Speaking Stones, silence and actions 'speak' as much as words. The performance montage juxtaposes words, images, actions, and music. The montage text and performance score have been generated from newly authored text by Kaite O'Reilly; textual fragments edited from sources such as Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero by Brian Rotman; Kazuo Ohno's The Dead Sea; and A Chorus of Stones by Susan Griffith; and images, movement, and a physical score generated during rehearsals and workshops.

About the context of the performance space in Aflenz, Austria.


First production
12th of September 2002
Theater ASOU
Graz, Austria

Director Phillip B. Zarrilli
Writer, Dramaturgy Kaite O'Reilly
Translation Frank Heibert
Costumes Alexandra Pötz
Light Sabine Wiesenbauer, Monika Kanduth
Sound Phillip Neudeck
Cast Laura Dannequin, Christian Heuegger, Uschi Litschauer, Gernot Rieger, Klaus Seewald, Monika Zöhrer


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