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OH FAITH
The Doubters Mass
A nomadic church performance & music theater.
90 min, D,E,F
by Elia Rediger & int int irrit
A production by Schauspiel Leipzig RESIDENZ & int int irrit
# DOCUMENTATION
- not for public -
#About
OH FAITH
A Doubters Mass on tour
by Elia Rediger & int int irrit,
with Caroline Schnitzer,
Ensemble SoaVI
90min, D,E,F Subtitles
OH FAITH is a performative mass situated between music theatre, concert, and ritual. At its core lies doubt, understood not as a deficiency, but as a liturgical force. “À la gloire des sceptiques” (“to the glory of the skeptics”), the production explores origin, finitude, and the longing for grounding in a time when certainties are dissolving. Between rational knowledge and spiritual searching, OH FAITH transforms uncertainty into a collective experience.
Built as an agnostic mass, a ritual gathering as immersive music theatre, for a community of non-believers, doubters, and, of course, believers. A ritual community is developed – as a temporary church for the city visited.
Priests, doubters, and a cinematic motet choir guide the audience through a sequence of short sermons, arias, chorales and ritual acts. Doubt is shared, amplified chorally, and transformed, marking a passage toward a “religion of life.”
Friedrich Nietzsche’s amor fati meets the poetic prayer of Rose Ausländer; René Descartes’ cogito encounters a Johann Sebastian Bach chorale and pop culture., Improvisation, and interventions disrupt liturgical rigidity, opening a space between ceremony and community.
Stage and costume merge field church, brutalism, and rave temple, while the filmed projection of the choir intensifies the immersive experience. OH FAITH is conceived as a tourable installation, unfolding from Leipzig into churches, fields, theatres, and festival spaces.
Liturgically guided by two Past:or Future – a preacher figures from both past and future, the piece reflects on time and mortality. Accompanied by a polyphonic choir, the personal search for faith becomes a tentative probing into one’s innermost self.
How much doubt can we endure? Can we find comfort and reconciliation in this new community?
In his work, Swiss director, composer, writer, and multimedia artist Elia Rediger creates formats that combine multimedia performance, opera, film, theatre, and visual art—responding to an expanded, hybrid reality.
“OH FAITH” is the second work in a multi-year cycle following LUV (Wiener Festwochen, euro-scen Basel, Nationaltheater Prague).
The collective int int irrit operates as a hybrid between studio, campaign, company, and agency—developing multidisciplinary projects that integrate artistic process itself into the work, aiming to create provocative, humanistic “irritations.”
# Credits
Performance: Caroline Schnitzer, Elia Rediger
Direction & Text: Elia Rediger
Dramaturgy & Text: Hannes Köpke
Stage: Felicia Riegel
Costume: Janine Werthmann
Costume Chor: Julia Scholz und Olivia Rosendorfer
Video: Moritz von Dungern
Music: Elia Rediger, Caroline Schnitzer, Philippe Ruoff,
Audio Engineering: Philipp Ruoff
Sound: Dominik Kaiser
Light: Sebastian Ebler, Dimitri Paulin
Production: Benjamin Buchwald
Assisting Production: Vivien Pauline Cisek, Ann-Lou Faber mit
with Music by Gregorio Allegri, G.F.Händel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,
Choir in video & Sound: Ensemble SoaVI
Sopran: Ursula Göller, Caroline Jacob
Alt: Anna Katharina Schuch,
Tenor: Fridolin Wissemann
Bariton: Lucas Reis
Bass: Vincent Hoppe
Conductor: Lucas Reis
Artistic Director Residenz: Melanie Albrecht
Production Residenz Verena Strasser
Techn. Director Konstantin Müller
Techn. Director Stage Residenz Isaak Künzel
CoProduction Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig & int int irrit
With friendly suport of Twilight Creations – Prostetics
Contact / Touring:
Benjamin Buchwald: benjamin@intintirrit.net
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