A Year without Summer, directed and choreographed by Florentina Holzinger, premiered on 21 May 2025 at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, featuring an all cis-female, naked cast—Holzinger’s signature—who display a range of diverse and at times visceral talents.
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Blood, Sweat & Talent
Continue reading “Blood, Sweat & Talent”Watching the premiere of Florentina Holzinger’s “Ophelia’s Got Talent”, I was reminded of an essay I once wrote that, using Ophelia in Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ as an example, argued how women were drawn in fainter lines than their male counterparts. Nowhere is this further from the truth than in Holzinger’s show, which takes a fat marker pen to her name and, indeed, the name of every woman that has ever lived in her wake. Premiering on 15 September 2022 at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, “Ophelia’s Got Talent” opened the season with a celebration of womanhood that shouldn’t be missed.
