Erwartung (2016)

Set in Times Square, the intimate one-person show is scaled to dramatic proportions within this most public of settings when a woman's anguish explodes on the streets of New York3 as an operatic monument to lamentation. Sean Evans captured this gesture to New York by creating a unique film set in heart-beating Times Square. Visual Artist Robin Rhode's verve for Schoenberg's opera is a musical tribute to his South-African home country. "The Woman", forsaken, suffering and wailing, uncertain about the whereabouts of her "The Man" - killed, deserted, missing. This was the lamenting during the times of Apartheid. What Schoenberg described as a "30-second anxiety attack extended musically into a 33-minute opera" can be seen as a summary of this national trauma.