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
Anurupa Roy (IND): BOLLYWOOD BANDWAGON
Anurupa Roy: BOLLYWOOD BANDWAGON
Copyright: Anupriya Roy
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 big screen. Only here they are acted by puppets to a static camera which simultaneously projects the play on a screen. BOLLYWOOD BANDWAGON also shows us the things behind the scenes that Bollywood doesn’t want its audience to see: its harsh economic realities, the casting couch, failed dreams and fading stars. Commissioned by Linz09 from Anurupa Roy and her company KatKatha, this is an exuberant puppet’s eye view of the rampant and insatiable world of entertainment.
WHEN // 19. – 20. October, 7 pm
WHERE // Hafenhalle09
Category: Festival, Theatre
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