Pierrot Lunaire (2014)
Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert Giraud, LaBruce transposed a strange and tragic episode of true crime onto the composition. Complementing the original atonal score is a narrative about a trans man who is outed by his girlfriend’s father and forbidden from seeing the young woman again. Crestfallen, the protagonist decides to prove the fact of his manhood by castrating a taxi driver and then revealing his newly transplanted member to the two of them. This story, which for LaBruce “serves as a kind of allegory for all gender radicals and outcasts driven to extremes by the disapproval and hostility of the dominant order,” is rendered in a visual style that nods to the era of Schoenberg’s melodrama. LaBruce cheekily appropriates the formal vocabulary of silent cinema with black-and-white photography, irises, and intertitles like “A cock, a cock, my kingdom for a cock!”
Director: Bruce LaBruce
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Susanne Sachße as Pierrot Lunaire |
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Maria Ivanenko as |
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Paulina Bachmann as |
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Luizo Vega as |
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Mehdi Berkouki as |
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Boris Lisowski as |
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Krishna Kumar Krishnan as |
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Bruce LaBruce as |
| Directing | Bruce LaBruce | Director |
| Production | Tomas Liska | Producer |
| Sound | Arnold Schönberg | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Anna Mülter | Producer |
| Production | Claus Matthes | Producer |
| Crew | Albert Giraud | Poem |
| Camera | Tomas Liska | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Ismail Necmi | Director of Photography |
| Production | Jürgen Brüning | Producer |
| Writing | Bruce LaBruce | Writer |
| Production | Bruce LaBruce | Producer |
