Songs at the end of the world

“Antarctica is the last place where you may drop down, when you shake the earth and can’t stay put anywhere else.”

Inspired by this quote from the documentary Encouters at the End of the World by German filmmaker Werner Herzog, Wunderbaum and Touki Delphine will cooperate for a second time, six years after Lost Chord Radio. Wunderbaum, a Dutch-Flemish group of actors/musicians performs a high-energy concert spectacle about dreams, choices and possibilities set in Antartica. 

These actors and musicians share a love for roaming, and stories about the homeless. They rewrote their lives using childhood photographs, sunk to the bottom of the world in their thoughts, and met their other selves in their dreams: the adventurers, scientists, professional dreamers and fulltime travellers who they, deep down, actually also are.

"Antarctica, the coldest and driest continent that covers Atlantis; the wind that always blows from the east. Emperor Penguins waddle past the research stations from Chile and Germany. Volcanologists sit on the edge of the Erebus: one of the exceptional volcanoes where you can see straight into the swirling magma of the earth. Reaching for the core of life via the largest possible circuitous route: this is also what our characters do in Songs at the end of the World. These are extreme phenomena in extreme circumstances, they lay bare existential desires. Musically and absurdly theatrical. Antarctica sings along. Antarctica, Antarctica. Hear us gasping, hear our breath freezing, hear our words." - Wunderbaum

Filmed at The Debra and Kevin Rollins Theatre at the Long Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by the Fusebox Festival