MARTA GÓRNICKA

KASSANDRA

fot. Magda Hueckel

KASSANDRA fot. Esra Rotthoff

MOTHERS A SONG FOR WAR TIME fot. Bartek Warzecha

CONSTITUTION fot.Michał Rumas

JEDEM DAS SEINE Fot.Dawid Balzer

GRUNDGESETZ Fot.Lutz Knospe

MOTHER COURAGE WON'T REMAIN SILENT. THE CHORUS FOR WAR TIME

HYMN TO LOVE Fot.Magda Hueckel

COMMUNITY - AN APP FOR ONE PERSON Fot.Lutz Knospe

M(OTHER)COURAGE

HYMN TO LOVE Fot. Maciej Rukasz

CONSTITUTION Fot.Michał Rumas

GRUNDGESETZ Fot.Lutz Knospe

"Every day, entire communities are confronted with ignorance and silencing. Their vulnerable voices are like the song of canaries in a coal mine. With the CASSANDRA CHORUS, I bring these voices to the stage to sing a song of empowerment together.
As long as the canaries continue to sing, we are alive.
Marta Górnicka for Tagesspiegel

KASSANDRA – OR SONGS OF THE CANARIES, PREMIERE, APRIL 18 2026, MAXIM GORKI THEATER Berlin

KASSANDRA the world premiere of Marta’s new performance will take place on 18 April 2026 at Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Forming a chorus of 21 Kassandras these contemporary voices write a revisited, multi-voiced story of Cassandra. Together they examine what we, as a society, tend to remove from our field of vision, what lies […]

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28.05.2026 KASSANDRA AT WIENER FESTWOCHEN FESTIVAL, VIENNA 3,4,5 June 2026

Unwanted truths and warnings went unheard, but now societies look on in helpless silence at images of arid landscapes, razed cities and the multiple crises of the present. The ancient prophet Cassandra raised her voice against such images of horror and war. It was her fate to foresee disaster but not be heard with her […]

22.05.2026 KASSANDRA AT MAXIM GORKI THEATER, Berlin, 30.05.26

KASSANDRA 30.05 at Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Forming a chorus of 21 Cassandras these contemporary voices write a revisited, multi-voiced story of Cassandra. Together they examine what we, as a society, tend to remove from our field of vision, what lies ahead of us and before our very eyes, what remains unheard inside of […]

I believe that the VOICE has a great power. I believe in the power of the multilingual CHORUS of voices which acts beyond language, in spite of it, and it resists divisions and violence through the sheer co-presence of infinitely diverse bodies.