Cast and Crew

Libretto: Katharina Tiwald
Music : Erling Wold

Production: Peter Wagner

Assistant Director: Michael Foster
Musical direction and conducting: Davorin Mori
Stage design: Florian Lang
Costume: Markus Kuscher

Occupation

Daphne : Janina Schweitzer
Voice : Michaela Scheider-Khom

In various roles

Marika Rainer
Johanna Stacher
Martin Ganthaler
Fernando Hernandez

Musicians of the Camerata Sinfonica Austria:

Charlotte Lang / Aurelia Kegley – cello
Miha Firšt – double bass
Martin Schuster / Elias Domschitz – trumpet
Daniel Mascher / Markus Wonisch – trombone
Marko Jurečič – percussion
Matjaž Balažic – accordion

Production management Oberwart: Alfred Masal and Orsolya Turai
Production management Klagenfurt: Susanna Buchacher
Organization Camerata Sinfonica Austria: Julia Fellner
Stage management and video mapping: Michael Foster
Sound setup and live sound: Konrad Überbacher, Tom Eitel
Buildings and assistance : Jan Tomsits, Florian Decker

We meet Daphne in her garden, her refuge. At the end we are released back into a garden, a garden in which the murdered people who had to die because of their texts sit among the plants. From the beginning it is clear what is going to happen: this is also a play about the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. And between the scenes we will always get a glimpse of one of the murderers, George Degiorgio, sitting in his boat and waiting for his brother’s call, the call that signals to him: now she’s in the car, now the text message has to be sent who detonates the bomb.
Daphne was the living advice box, the mouthpiece, people sent her tons of information. This means that there actually exists a choir to which Daphne has conveyed her information, a cacophony of individual voices, the ringing of various telephones, the whispers, the indignation.
The chorus provides the organic background against which the action unfolds and, in its origins from the depths of European theatrical language, corresponds to the archaic nature of this vendetta-like murder.
The chorus is alternately sea, garden, wall, but also the line of politicians, lawyers, business people, people with money waiting to be laundered.
In the end, Brother 1, waiting on the boat, detonates the bomb via text message under the car seat of an investigative journalist, a most remarkable woman – who made only one mistake: messing with power.