The year is 2025. We live in a year without summer. Reality is filled with sudden moments of shock that feel like an apocalyptic vision. The world has been plunged into darkness and stripped of all certainty: survival becomes ritual and our despair dances hand in hand with ecstasy.<\/p>\n
In 1816, the original 'year without a summer', Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupts. Ash fills the sky, the sun disappears, crops fail and the world goes hungry. That same year, 18-year-old Mary Shelley spends time on Lake Geneva with other poets. Storms and darkness inspire them to tell ghost stories. Mary imagines Frankenstein - a scientific genius who forces nature to bend to his will. A story about defying the limits of life, with a monster composed of body parts, ending in destruction.<\/p>\n
Florentina Holzinger and the ensemble explore the narratives we shape about our world, our bodies, health, decay and identities: the 21st century quest for eternal life, the promise of medicine, and the risks of unbridled technological development in a world shaped by AI, robotics and bioengineering. \"A Year Without Summer\"<\/em> borrows this quest to improve nature to the limit - playing off the promise of eternal life against the certainty of death. Florentina Holzinger is back in Sweden with a brand new work and in A Year Without Summer<\/em> Holzinger creates a contemporary stage vision in which artificial life, the eternal ideal of youth and the vulnerability of the body collide.<\/p>\n A Year Without Summer<\/em> premiered at the Volksb\u00fchne in Berlin on 21 May 2025. 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\nBut what happens when creation becomes the monster? When creation becomes (like) us?<\/p>\n
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