CHARLOTTEGASH
All work

Credits

Performers: Charlotte Gash, Charlotta Öberg, Danielle Pamp, Jojo Ahlkvist, Hilma Bäckström

Concept, text, set design, props: Charlotte Gash

Prop making: Charlotte Gash, Charlotta Öberg, Danielle Pamp: Jojo Ahlkvist, Hilma Bäckström

Costume design: Charlotte Gash, Charlotta Öberg

Costume making: Danielle Pamp, Charlotta Öberg

Dramaturgy: Charlotte Gash, Jojo Ahlkvist

Song arrangement: Charlotte Gash, Danielle Pamp

A handmade blue cardboard ashtray filled with sculpted cigarettes.

The Sound of Losers

2024

Set in the present-day within the art academy in Vienna, the performance class is sick and tired of sex-obsessed party maniac GASH. GASH’s priorities are not in order, and after 25 years in the class, they’re ready to kick her out. As punishment, THE PROFESSOR OF THE PERFORMANCE CLASS sends GASH over to the painting class to take over the professorship after hearing about the vacant position from the painters’ landlord, 95-year-old FRAU SCHÖNE (an old friend from the 80s disco scene in Vienna). Since the painters’ professor was fired, the students are depressed and dishevelled. Their paintings have grown bland and dull. FRAU SCHÖNE has kept them disciplined with severe control and threatens to evict them from the studio if they don’t create good enough work that she can sell. But how will the painters get along with a performance artist as a professor…?

Performers on a stage filled with handmade art props, with the audience in the foreground.
Four performers holding scripts and gesturing under blue stage lighting.
Performers laughing in painted aprons in front of a handmade backdrop.
Performers among oversized cardboard bottles and scenery under red stage lighting.
Performers singing beside a cardboard castle, tree and puppet under bright stage lighting.
Five performers in sparkling hats posing with raised arms around Charlotte on stage.
Performers acting among handmade paintings, easels and cardboard props.
A performer in a curly white wig and oversized glasses beside performers holding cardboard instruments.
A performer lying beneath an oversized cardboard blanket under green stage lighting.
Charlotte reacting with raised hands beside a handmade cardboard bag.
Three performers in blond wigs and painted aprons holding scripts.
Charlotte performing with a script in front of the painted studio backdrop.
Four performers in sparkling hats dancing with linked arms.
Handmade cardboard books, a cabinet and an I love performance sign.
A performer in a blond wig holding an oversized cardboard bottle.
Performers holding cardboard books among oversized studio props.
Charlotte and four performers singing among cardboard bottles and books.
Three performers holding handmade cardboard guitars and a drum.
Two seated performers wearing oversized cardboard sunglasses and holding scripts.
Charlotte performing with a cardboard microphone, script and handmade costume props.
A performer wearing a cardboard tree costume and reading a script.
Charlotte surrounded by performers and cardboard scenery under warm stage lighting.