MARTA GÓRNICKA

KASSANDRA

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

AT THE TIME WHEN UKRAINE IS CRYING OUT, we need theatre with its power of transformation. The power to remember what is most monstrous. We need practices brought by the CHORUS- community practices, healing. A theatre of new forms of solidarity. And new rituals. (Marta Górnicka for Theatre der Zeit)

KASSANDRA – THE WORLD PREMIERE AT THE MAXIM GORKI THEATER BERLIN 18 APRIL 2026

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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05.03.2026 KASSANDRA OR THE SONGS OF THE CANARIES WORLD PREMIERE AT MAXIM GORKI THEATER, BERLIN

KASSANDRA – OR THE SONG OF THE CANARIES 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 Cassandras these contemporary voices write a revisited, multi-voiced story of Cassandra. Together they examine what we, as a society, tend to remove […]

25.02.2026 KASSANDRA AT FREE REPUBLIC OF VIENNA FESTIVAL 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 […]

23.02.2026 MOTHERS opens the LESSINGTAGE FESTIVAL IN HAMBURG WITH STANDING OVATIONS

“Our performance is about women and war. About defense mechanisms and responsibility. About our reaction to a war in Europe. About the rituals of wartime violence against women and civilians which are unchanging.” Marta Górnicka “MOTHERS A SONG FOR WARTIME, orchestrated by director Marta Górnicka, goes beyond the experience of a performance, it is a […]

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.