“I go to Paris to have sex. Sometimes I feel like a philistine piece of shit, thinking: hey, here is a city full of art, culture, fine dining, history, fashion, and vibrant intellectual life, yet all I want from it are sleepless, druggy nights drifting from small, dark apartment to small, dark apartment, all those big dicks and shimmering muscles in between the only “sights” you have seen.” Ashkan Sepahvand, La Pute Arabe
“Today, I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavour to trace its imperfections, its perversions.” Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White Masks
“Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.” Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
Hé bien ! la guerre. is a multimedia opera with music by Birke Bertelsmeier, libretto by Selin Davasse and direction by Tilman Hecker transmorphing the sensuous story of Dangerous Liaisons, a 1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos with playful, poetic and potent fragments of queer, feminist and postcolonial theory.
Director: Tilman Hecker
Libretto: Selin Davasse
Composition: Birke Bertelsmeier
Costume Design: Belle Santos
Dramaturgy: Dominikus Müller