Theatre Mania1: Snowstorm – Hell on Earth
Press Release
Friday, 23 January 2009
This weekend (January 24 & 25), the international theatre and dance festival THEATRE MANIA 1: SNOWSTORM presents HELL ON EARTH, a terpsichorean encounter by young people with issues revolving around migration and integration. Next week begins with two Austrian premieres: ESCALE TRIE COLORE on Monday, January 26, 2009 and THE REAL FICTION on Tuesday, January 27, 2009.
This sharp, street-wise, high-energy show was created by choreographer Constanza Macras with a group of teenagers from Neukölln, a Berlin neighborhood with 150,000 inhabitants from over 160 countries.
How do adolescents with an immigrant background cope with their sense of foreignness? How do interactions of highly divergent conceptions of femininity and masculinity, of physicality and gender, get played out? HELL ON EARTH reports from these young people’s own perspectives about hopes and difficulties, about the migration experience and the discrimination they encounter a daily basis, and tells of their desire to assimilate and the difficulties this brings.
HELL ON EARTH deals with the turbulent reality of growing up under difficult conditions. The results are lively, moving and often very funny.
The performance on Sunday, January 25, 2009 will be translated into sign language for the deaf. Afterwards, there’ll be an audience Q&A session.
Two more Austrian premieres will take place next week. On Monday, January 26, 2009, Senegalese choreographer Audréya Ouamba presents her tripartite dance program entitled ESCALE TRIE COLORE. The three pieces, Design, Impro-Visé_2 and Contre Poids, approach major political issues on a small scale and explore them in a subtle yet eloquent way.
On Tuesday, January 27, 2009, theatregoers will be treated to the Austrian debut of THE REAL FICTION, an evening full of surprises staged by Spanish director Cuqui Jerez. This project is an investigation of the concept of truth. The audience’s powers of imagination will be dispatched on a thrilling journey over the course of the evening. Surreal theatre in its most humorous form!
If you have questions, need photo material or wish to obtain press passes, please contact Astrid Bader or Anna Grüssinger by calling +43-1-5240542-15 or -11 or via e-mail to astrid.bader@bsx.at or anna.gruessinger@bsx.at.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Constanza Macras / Dorky Park
HELL ON EARTH (2 hours)
(world premiere: Berlin 2008)
8 PM, Hafenhalle09
(On the corner of Industriezeile / Derfflingerstraße; Hafenbecken 3)
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Constanza Macras / Dorky Park
HELL ON EARTH (2 hours)
8 PM, Hafenhalle09
(On the corner of Industriezeile / Derfflingerstraße; Hafenbecken 3)
This performance will be translated into sign language for the deaf.
Followed by audience Q&A session
Monday, January 26, 2009
Cie. 1er Temps / Andréya Ouamba
ESCALE TRIE COLORE (1h30)
Austria Premiere
8 PM, Hafenhalle09, Studio
(On the corner of Industriezeile / Derfflingerstraße; Hafenbecken 3)
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Cuqui Jerez
THE REAL FICTION (2 hours, 20 minutes)
Austrian premiere (world premiere: Frankfurt/Main 2005)
8 PM, Hafenhalle09
(On the corner of Industriezeile / Derfflingerstraße; Hafenbecken 3)
TICKETS
Advance purchase:
via Ö-Ticket, at the Linz09 Infocenter, Hauptplatz 5, 4020 Linz, and online at www.linz09.at.
Reservations by phone:
(with the exception of TERRITORIES, a production of Landestheater Linz)
Call 0664 82 83 86 0
Mondays thru Fridays from 1 to 6 PM and Saturdays 10 AM to 1 PM
You can pick up your tickets at the venue box office on the evening of the performance. To qualify for discounts, please be sure to bring proper identification! Your reservation remains valid until 30 minutes prior to show time.
On the evening of the performance:
tickets can be purchased at the venue box office, which opens one hour prior to show time.
With the LINZ09 INSIDER
you can purchase tickets to all THEATRE MANIA 1 performances for €9.
Make telephone reservations for “PURIMSPIL” and all performances in the sicht:wechsel festival lineup by calling 0664 82 83 86 0
We’re already accepting ticket reservations for all 10 performances of “Purimspil” (premiere: March 11, 2009) staged in the one-of-a-kind ambience of the Cembrankeller.
