A music theatre piece in body language

In “Hidden Heartache”, two Deaf and two hearing performers look for a common physical language on stage, striving to understand each other and create a utopia beyond linguistic borders that lies somewhere between languages and cultures.

In “Hidden Heartache”, two Deaf and two hearing performers look for a common physical language on stage, striving to understand each other and create a utopia beyond linguistic borders that lies somewhere between languages and cultures.
This piece by the Swiss collective ox&öl becomes physically accessible and experiential for all: by using body-sound transducers, the compositions by Ailís Ní Ríain and Julie Herndon, from the perspectives of a Deaf and a hearing composer, are transformed in the room.


* ‘Deaf’ (written with a capital letter) is the positive self-designation commonly used in English by people who cannot hear – regardless of whether they are deaf, have residual hearing or are hard of hearing.