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A Festival of Puppetry and Robotics, Shadows and Animation

Digital animation and robotics are among the most modern performance technologies. Yet they are also the latest incarnations of humankind’s oldest theatrical forms based on moving images—shadow theater—and on objects embodying the human form—puppetry. So, it should come as no surprise that the artists involved in this festival bringing together digital animation and shadow theater, puppetry and robotics have a shared taste for literary classics and epic narrative structures. Works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Kafka and Ramayana are on the program; so is one about an artistic genius of the last century, and another about Linz’s two most famous schoolboys. As a special added attraction: a fictional journey to Bollywood for a humorous, ironic encounter with Mumbai’s film industry.


WHAT // International theatre festival
WHEN // October 8 – 21, 2009
WHERE // Hafenhalle09

08.10.2009
A Doll’s House: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s cycle of Ibsen plays presents a radical view of the Norwegian psyche through their vibrant and highly subjective productions of their national...
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09.10.2009 - 10.10.2009
THE TRIAL: 1n0ut have found in Franz Kafka’s The TrIAl a world full of the loops, repeats, instructions and protocols which are familiar parts of every computer programme. In their hands, this c...
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13.10.2009 - 14.10.2009
BLACK BOX: Irresistible sci-fi theatre from Salzburg-based artist group gold extra. A classroom full of low-tech robots perform as their end of year assignment the timeless human classic play Hamlet. ...
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15.10.2009 - 16.10.2009
ABOUT KLEE or THE BONE IN MY HEAD: Melanie Sowa and Friederike Krahl’s performance tells the story of the celebrated artist Paul Klee using puppets designed by Klee himself as toys for his son F...
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17.10.2009 - 20.10.2009
SCHOOLBOY PLAY or THERE IS NO SUBJECT: Identity crises happen to everyone. From the most famous to the most notorious and the most ordinary of individuals, the search for selfhood is a rite of pa...
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19.10.2009 - 20.10.2009
An evening with all the classic Bollywood ingredients: apparently impossible plots, love triangles, family rivalries, villains, henchmen, fight sequences, love songs and dance routines all shown on a ...
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21.10.2009
ABOUT RAM is a modern and very human portrait of the Hindu God Rama, his long separation from his wife Sita and the fierce battle he must fight against the demon who kidnapped her. Anurupa Roy uses a ...
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