International Festival of Contemporary Theatre

Programme

Evros Walk Water

Daniel Wetzel / Rimini Protokoll

11 November 14.00,15.30,17.00,18.30,20.30 (in English), Ģertrūdes ielas teātris |

12 November 12.00,13.30,15.00,16.30,18.00,20.00 (in English), Ģertrūdes ielas teātris | 15 and 10 Eur

In Evros Walk Water Daniel Wetzel from Rimini Protokoll has collaborated with the boys in Athens to develop a stage set and audio drama in which an improvised version of Water Walk by John Cage is performed by the audience. The original instruments and sounds have been replaced by the boys’ stories as they talk about their reasons for fleeing their home countries, their journey to Europe, and their new life in Athens. They currently attend school and are busy with their first girlfriends and computer games and do not speak to each other about the traumas they have experienced.

As boys themselves are not allowed to travel the audience has to perform the show following the stories and directions in their headphones. The performance is about the cooperation between audience and actors across a political, spatial, and temporal divide. The notion: “we would like to perform it for you, but because we are not allowed, you have to play it yourselves” turns the division into a productive one.

About artist

Rimini Protokoll is Helgard Kim Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel have been working as a team since 2000. They work in the area of theater, a team of author-directors. Their work in the realm of theater, sound and radio plays, film, installation emerge in constellations of two or three and solo as well. Since 2002, all their works have been written collectively under the label Rimini Protokoll. At the focus of their work is the continuous development of the tools of the theater to allow for unusual perspectives on our reality.

Credits

Concept, direction: Daniel Wetzel
Dramaturgy: Ioanna Valsamidou
Assistants: Konstantinos Kallivretakis, Ioanna Valsamidou
Set design: Adrianos Zacharias, Magda Plevraki
Sound: Peter Breitenbach, Panos Tsagarakis
Light: Roger Stieger
Consulting: Fotis Parthenidis
Interpreter: Bakar, Abbas
Latvian voice over: Gerds Lapoška, Kirils Ēcis, Ralfs Pakulis, Frederiks Anosovs, Eduards Taurens, Valters Vagotiņš-Vagulis
Sound: Ivars Ozols
Production management: Änne-Marthe Kühn, Heidrun Schlegel (Rimini Apparat), Charlotte Streck
Production assistant: Kostas Valsamidis
Co-production: TAK Liechtenstein, Schloßmediale Werdenberg, Rimini Apparat
In collaboration with: Polyplanity Productions