Mozart Undone: mud-splattered melodies – in pictures

It’s Mozart but not as you know it: take a look at Betty Nansen Teatret’s theatrical spectacle
  
  


Clowning around ... An actor fixes her costume in the dressing room
Clowning around ... An actor fixes her costume in the dressing room. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
A scene from Mozart Undone.
Mozart Undone is a ‘theatre concert’ invented by the Danish director Nikolaj Cederholm. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
A scene from Mozart Undone.
Previous theatre concerts have been devoted to the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan and the Beatles. The actor in the centre of the picture is Lotte Andersen – familiar to fans of the TV scandi-crime dramas The Killing and The Bridge II. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Photograph: Tristram Kenton
A scene from Mozart Undone.
The performers get splashed and splattered during Mozart Undone. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
A scene from Mozart Undone.
The water is a reference to the purity of Mozart’s music, says Cederholm. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
A scene from Mozart Undone.
Meanwhile, the music takes in cabaret, bluegrass, soft rock, R&B and a cappella. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
A scene from Mozart Undone.
Performers end up in some difficult positions, hanging upside down or squeezed into an enormous bell jar. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
A scene from Mozart Undone.
Mark Linn, left, and Lotte Andersen. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
A scene from Mozart Undone.
The company have had to bring over their own water system: two huge tanks, one for supply and one for collecting the waste. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
A scene from Mozart Undone.
The instruments are protected from the water – they’re covered by condoms. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
A scene from Mozart Undone.
Cederholm’s theatre concerts have played to thousands over the past two decades. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
A Mozart Undone actor in the Barbican lift.
A Mozart Undone actor in the Barbican lift. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
Mozart Undone are washed off after the performance.
‘The costumes get so wrecked,’ says Cederholm. ‘Everything and everyone has to be hosed down afterwards.’ The show runs until 1 March 2014. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
 

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