The Redheaded Man

This work is a staged sonic performance located in the tension between the poetic and the mundane, the mysterious and the funny or the absurd. It integrates composed music, theatrical presence, choreographed movement, and light into a unified form of expression—where gesture, sound, and space interact continuously and theatrically at times in an almost ceremonial way.

The piece is structured around five brief texts by Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms, whose deadpan, fragmentary writings expose cracks in everyday logic. These texts appear not as narration but as tonal ruptures – infusing the performance with disorientation, black humor, and existential sharpness. There is no singer – they will be spoken but the instruments will “speak” them as well.

In today’s world, where reality often resists coherent framing, absurdity becomes a strangely lucid way of listening—one that reflects rather than resolves, disturbs the illogical rather than explains it. Chaya Czernowin