A ghostly streetcar from another time travels through the city. The windows are blind. The doors don't open at the stops and nobody gets on or off. Aromatic fog seeps through the cracks of the old vehicle and you can faintly make out the colorful flashes of a phantom organ. Then the darkened electric carriage starts to move. Seemingly effortlessly propelled by the sound of tantalized elves and exhaling whales. The moving tableau vivant is reminiscent of a ship of the dead on rails. Echo o o o is a moving black hole that breathes in everything on the HAVAG route network. The light, the air, the smells and the objects. The Echo o o travels until everything has gone black. And then the inhabitants of the city have to re-dice the order of things.

Idea, realisation: Showcase Beat Le Mot

Echo o o Trauma Tram is a  production by Showcase Beat Le Mot with Neues Theater Halle. Funded by Funded by Doppelpass – Theater Cooperation Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. With friendly support by HAVAG.