silent eyes

Our theatre performance will be about a father and his daughter. They play, they dance, they live together. But the father, vivacious and full of life, is missing his stern daughter’s laughter/ ability to laugh. They both go on separate journeys to put a smile back on the girl’s face. By doing so, they find out that one has to become one’s own greatest home to be able to be happy at all.
The light-flooded world on stage will be occupied by two players who will show the audience why not only body language and hands but also facial expression are important to understand each other.
Using no language, little sound but lots of starlight, deaf and hearing children and adults alike are invited on this journey in search of a smile.
Alongside the hearing actress Asta Nechajute we will be working once again with the deaf actor Jürgen Endress.
In addition, we have worked out a stage- and lighting concept that we hope will invite the younger and older audience to marvel, dream and laugh with us.

We want to give deaf children from five years the chance to experience and understand the location and concept of theatre. On stage we do not work with spoken or sign language but we try to find another kind of language using the body, the heart and visual components. That way, both hearing and non-hearing children will have the chance to get to know theatre without encountering communication or comprehension problems.
We want to build a bridge between the hearing and the non-hearing world also thematically – instead of pointing out the differences, we are trying to show all the similarities. With this there may be a chance for deaf children to be able to strengthen and appreciate their own identity and for the hearing audience to get to know the non-hearing world.

Everybody supporting us is helping to make our theatre production happen in the most professional way and the highest quality possible. Furthermore, you are helping to make theatre performances for deaf children a natural matter of course. And maybe you will also learn to listen with your eyes, to be just a bit amazed and to communicate with your hearts.
With your donation you will also make it possible for us to show our production not only in theatres but in public spaces as well, so we can reach as many deaf, hearing and non-native-speaking children and adults to show them our production and our concern for breaking down unnecessary walls in communication.
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The financial means for the personnel costs will be provided by the office for cultural affairs of Frankfurt. We still wait for the approval of funding applications at two private foundations and Hessen country. Three private foundations declined our application already so that we will not reach our calculated amount of money without your help! The stage scenery by Lukas Wegner will be a light installation of lots of surprising elements and is meant to be a visual experience for the audience. We will need adequate technical equipment to be able to perform autonomously on tour outside of theatres.
Our goal is 6000.-€ - BUT WE WON’T GET ANGRY, IF MORE MONEY IS COLLECTED. LET OUR GOAL EXPLODE WITH ALL OF YOUR DONATIONS!
Should there really be more than 6.000€ at the end of our donation campaign, all of the extra money will be used by Compagnie Augenmusik for up-coming projects with the same thematic focus.