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ABOUT THE PIECE

// in Co-production withTheater im Ballsaal

// Premiere: 19.06.2004

// Touring: 2005: "Scènes Valaisanes": Théâtre du Crochetan, CH-Monthey / Théâtre Interface, CH-Sion

// Powered by: Kunststiftung NRW, dem Ministerium für Städtebau und Wohnen, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW / Bundesstadt Bonn / NRW Landesbüro Freie Kultur / Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. aus den Mitteln des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien /  Le Conseil de la Culture Etat du Valais.

What makes a guest a guest and a stranger a stranger? Which rituals determine a friendship. And what mythical aspects determined sacred laws of hospitality. The choreography revolves around these questions. For the rights of strangers precede the rights of guests. The guest who was driven away, banished, returns as a frightening stranger.

BY AND WITH

Mata Sakka, Bärbel Stenzenberger, Joris Camelin, Marcelo Omine, Martin Schurr /// Choreography: Rafaële Giovanola /// Lighting Design: Marc Brodeur /// Sound Design*: Volker Wurth /// Costume design: Sabine Schnetz /// Choreographic Assistance: Antoinette Laurent /// Concept and Dramaturgy: Rainald Endraß

*Music from World Standard, Tom Recchion, Luc Ferrari, Heiner Goebbels, Simon Fisher Turner, Benjamin Lew, Huruomi Hosono, Boards of Canada

PRESS REVIEWS

"A wealth of expression, virtuosity, narrating what is nearly impossible to narrate, the reproduction of recurring images and obsessions casts a spell on the audience." (Bonner Rundschau)