{"id":21473,"date":"2025-07-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/?post_type=play&p=21473"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:21:11","slug":"1000-airplanes-on-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"play","link":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/en\/performance\/1000-airplanes-on-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1000 Airplanes on the Roof<\/em> by Philipp Glass and David Henry Hwang portrays a woman, M. who has been abducted by aliens and returns to a life that doesn’t make sense anymore. Working with an all FLINTA+ team, director Paige Eakin Young stays far away from a parable of being kidnapped. Together with performer and musician Mara Snip as her partner in crime, creates a horny space opera about love, care, being vulnerable, being seen, and T4T.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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M. describes her extra-terrestrial encounters as spoken text over the repetitive and minimalist music composition by Philip Glass (1988). She looks back on her life, on her own painful memories, while trying to make sense of her reflection in the mirror. In search of joy and empowerment, she starts celebrating her experience of otherness and transition. Drawing on their own experiences of living as trans women, director Paige Eakin Young and performer Mara Snip guide their audience through a playful exploration of desire, shame and joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WITH<\/strong> Mara Snip und Sarah Bodle and the musicians Sarah Taylor Ellis, Karola El\u00dfner, Alba Gentili-Tedeschi, Holly Volker Schlott, Rachel Susser<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DIRECTION <\/strong>Paige Eakin Young CO-DIRECTION<\/strong> Mara Snip COMPOSITION<\/strong> Philip Glass TEXT<\/strong> David Henry Hwang MUSICAL DIRECTION<\/strong> Sarah Taylor Ellis CHOREOGRAPHY <\/strong>Friederike Heine, Julia B. Laperri\u00e8re DRAMATURGY<\/strong> Anne van de Wetering SET AND COSTUME DESIGN<\/strong> Ana Ines Jabares-Pita LIGHT DESIGN <\/strong>Catalina Fernandez ASSISTANT DIRECTOR \/ PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT<\/strong> Anika Stauch\/Morghan Welt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LANGUAGE <\/strong>In English, with German surtitles

NOTE <\/strong>Strobe-light effects are used<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1000 Airplanes on the Roof by Philipp Glass and David Henry Hwang portrays a woman, M. who has been abducted by aliens and returns to a life that doesn’t make sense anymore. Working with an all FLINTA+ team, director Paige Eakin Young stays far away from a parable of being kidnapped. Together with performer and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21582,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_subtitle":"by Philip Glass (Music) and
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