A Year Without Summer

It is 2025. We live in a year without summer: In a jump-scare reality that feels like an apocalyptic vision of our world, thrown into darkness and stripped of certainty. Survival becomes ritual, and despair dances hand in hand with ecstasy.

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In 1816, the original „year without summer“, Mount Tambora erupts in Indonesia, ashes fill the sky, the sun disappears, crops fail, and the world hungers. That same year, 18-year-old Mary stays by Lake Geneva with other poets and storm and darkness inspire them to tell ghost stories. Mary imagines Dr. Frankenstein, a genius of science,who forces nature to bend to his will and ends up in destruction with his monster assembled from corpses‘ parts.

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Florentina Holzinger and cast explore the stories we tell about our bodies, health, identities, decay and our environment: The 21st century pursuit of longevity, medical promises of rejuvenation to the perils of unchecked technological growth in a world shaped by AI, robotics, and bioengineering. A Year without Summer appropriates this attempt to improve nature to the point of perversion and plays off the promise of eternal life against the certainty of death.

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But what happens when the creation becomes the monster? When creation becomes (like) us?

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On the tour of this production, I'm in charge of the musicians‘ and performers’ returns from the stage. Soon, I will also be in charge of FOH sound engineering.

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