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): ABOUT RAM
Anurupa Roy: ABOUT RAM
Copyright: Harish Kumar
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 combination of live puppetry and video using digital versions of traditional motifs from Indian shadow puppetry to revisit this classic story from a contemporary perspective. Ram is faced with a stark choice between his duty as a king and his love for his wife.
WHEN // 21 October, 8 pm
WHERE // Hafenhalle09
Category: Festival, Theatre
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