Dublin Fringe Festival
14. 15. 16. 17. September 2005
Heike Schmidt mit Franziskus Rohmert (Cello und Gesang)

Presse

A night to remember
Peter Crawley, Irish Times, Tuesday September 20

… Heike Schmidt’s entrancing Bed & Breakfast invited us to spent the night in a hostel, where we pyjama-clad spectators peered out from under our duvets, minds hovering in that liminal space between sleep and wakefulness, as two German performers sang us to sleep with international lullabies.

It was disarming and hypnotic, graceful and startling, as Heike Schmidt moved serenely through the room performing songs, familiar and strange, over the restful strains of Franziskus Rohmert’s cello. At times Schmidt sang warmly to individual slumberers, or ruptured the tranquillity with sudden starts: an unsettling Grimm’s fairytale, an Emily Dickinson poem, an unexpected thump and feral chant. Waking us at 6:30am with a dissonant composition torn from newspapers headlines – “Tourist shot dead!” – they invited us all, strangers no more, to sit down to breakfast, to share our recollections of childhood lullabies. Weird, perhaps, but quite wonderful, too. …

Sweet dreams in Schmidt’s B&B
Luke Clancy, EVENING HERALD, Thursday September 15th, 2005

The Fringe has always had a special talent for throwing up unusual shows in unusual venues. But this year’s show from Germany’s Heike Schmidt is, you might say, the best one yet. …
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