A “magical-real” singspiel from Max Sharam—this genre-defying solo work merges opera bouffe, video art, and physical theatre into a surreal, emotionally charged performance collage.
Known for her boundary-pushing work across music, visual art, and theatre, the inimitable Max Sharam returns with a genre-defying solo work where operatic flair collides with absurdist theatre, and reality softly unravels into dream logic. Step into the world of Mezzo Cuckoo—think Maria Callas on mushrooms, if she’d trained in visual art and clown school.Mezzo Cuckoo is a haunting meditation on the disappearance of women, both literal and symbolic. In a world that silences, erases, or distorts the female voice, Sharam distorts back—with absurdity, beauty, and defiance. Her voice ricochets from the sublime to the grotesque, and her physical presence both commands and confounds.Sharam’s hand-drawn projections become shape-shifting co-stars as she navigates a volatile dreamscape of beauty, dissonance, and disintegrating logic. She parodies iconic arias, dances through a labyrinth of digital illusion with raw emotion, seamlessly blending opera bouffe, physical comedy, psychological tension, and moments of aching clarity.With sly theatricality and unsettling grace, Mezzo Cuckoo reveals what happens when a woman refuses to vanish quietly.
