Oratorium (Oratorio)

Jury Statement

It’s not proper to talk about money. The performance collective She She Pop couldn’t care less and sets out to explore the topics of private property, inequality and shame. The “we” that is evoked everywhere becomes almost automatically evident. The audience is invited to participate: Initially as a choir of citizens with a prescribed text which results in a dialogue that is as enlightening as it is hilarious. Later, they are asked to reveal themselves as heirs and heiresses on stage. But nobody is made to feel bad, everyone is welcome. She She Pop forms the audience into a polyphonic choir, executing the promised “Collective meditation on a well-kept secret” in their musically balanced oratory. The piece reveres Brecht and his poetics of didactic plays just as much as it pokes fun at them. Like always in She She Pop’s work, the political nestles inside the private, in the biographical material. The revolutionarily beautiful costumes by Lea Søvsø can serve as a flag or as a cape. And the actors on stage are just as versatile. In short: A show that asks the right questions and refuses to accept any glib answers.