INNANA&CARA

A 'Real Time Opera' for vocals, hairdresser and amplified sissors

The Sumarian goddess Innana like Persephone goes into the underworld. Only unlike Persephone who is rather a victim and not the mistress of her own fate. Innana actually plans her trip. She goes into the underworld almost as an adventure and has a get out plan. She takes with her a hairdresser and manicurist.
Persephone on the other hand must be rescued. She eats only a paltry six pomegranate pips in six months and in punished for this by having to return every half year to the underworld also condemning the whole of humanity to six months of harsh winter. Persephone could be regarded as the original mythological anorexic. 
Innana&Cara is piece based on this Sumarian myth and is in uniform and involves a lot of contact microphones. It was premiered at SowieSo in Berlin in summer 2016 as part of Blanc regina's 'Strange Umbrelles' series with Lucy Evans on scissors.