Doppelgänger
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
Vegard Vinge, Ida Müller (N): EIN PUPPENHEIM
Vegard Vinge, Ida Müller - EIN PUPPENHEIM
Copyright: Vegard Vinge
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 poet. Here in a hand-painted universe where everything – landscapes, buildings, people – is freshly-decorated in bright colours, deeper and darker forces lurk which will soon undermine this happy, shiny surface. A Doll’s House is presented from the perspective of the Helmer family children – human dolls or puppets - who find themselves imprisoned in a world of money and disease. Vinge and Müller’s uncompromising and unique theatrical vocabulary mixes opera, splatterfilm, puppet-theatre, cartoon and performance. It is theatre as ritual and exorcism.
WHEN // 8. October, 7.30 pm
WHERE // Hafenhalle09
Category: Festival, Theatre
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