Songs Without Words

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courtesy Two Crows Theatre Company

A person with a conductor's baton surrounded by sheet music.

Jennifer Vosters wrote and stars in "Songs Without Words," Two Crows Theatre Company, 2025.

Felix Mendelssohn lives on in concert halls — but what about his sister Fanny, also a composer, whose work was silenced by the expectations of her time? Songs Without Words explores the complicated bond between these siblings. APT actor Jennifer Vosters wrote the script and stars as both Fanny and Felix. This last production of the Two Crows Theatre Company’s season will take place at the Hillside Theatre at Taliesin, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday.

media release:The third and final production of the Two Crows 2025 season is Songs Without Words by Jennifer Vosters, performed in the Hillside Theatre at Taliesin in Spring Green. You may have heard of the great composer F. Mendelssohn. You may not have heard that there were actually two equally talented siblings. Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn were each other’s chief supporters and best friends, but under the constraints of an unforgiving world, there was only room for one to be great.

Directed by Michael Cotey, Songs Without Words is the funny, tragic, and heartfelt story of one artistic soul inhabiting two very different artists. Featuring Jennifer Vosters, last seen in A Doll’s House at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, in a tour-de-force performance as both Fanny and Felix, Songs Without Words wrestles with enduring questions of gender and genius, family and fame, siblinghood and the power of art.