by Roland Schimmelpfennig
\n\u201eYou know how it is \u2013 you switch on the radio and a song\u2019s playing that just makes you smile.\u201c
\nIt\u2019s 8.51 at the railway station. On an ordinary September morning, a group of perfectly ordinary people are on their way to work. Or perhaps travelling somewhere. Families, students, workers, commuters, tourists. On this morning, life is both perfect and sad at the same time. Everyone has their own song playing in their head. It\u2019s as if a hundred songs were playing at once. Almost every seat in the carriage is taken. A few minutes later \u2013 it\u2019s 8.55 \u2013 Sally, the waitress, drops her cup of coffee and the world shatters into pieces. What can all fit into a single second before everything changes forever?
\n100 Songs is a theatrical score about the moment just before the turning point. About the fragility of a world that still seems to be taken for granted. A chorus of voices reconstructs fragments of a single morning \u2013 songs from the radio, random thoughts, small gestures, the longings and dreams of unsuspecting travellers \u2013 and weaves them into a map of reality that is about to fall apart.
\nBut how can one describe the indescribable? Fragments of stories,<\/p>\n