Black Tie
Rimini Protokoll
09/10/2010
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21:00
10/10/2010
, 21:00
Book and stage direction: Helgard Haug & Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll)
With: Miriam Yung Min Stein, Hye-Jin Choi and Ludwig
Research and dramaturgy: Sebastian Brünger
Stage set and Lighting: Marc Jungreithmeier
Music: Peter Dick (Ludwig / The Noes Have It)
Interaction design: Grit Schuster
Production management: Heidrun Schlegel
Translation: Jenna Krumminga
Assistant director: Dorit Abiry
Assistant stage designer: Sina Gentsch
Interaction design assistant: Tobias Üffinger
Production intern: Dimitris Bampilis
Translation to Italian and subtitels: Barbara Weigel
Rights reserved: Schaefersphillipen Theater und Medien GbR
Production: Rimini Apparat
Co-production: Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich
In cooperation with: Wiener Festwochen.
Funded by: the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs.
Performed in English, subtiteled in Italian
Running time: 1h 10min
NATIONAL PREMIERE
The only thing she got from the adoption agency about the time before the first document is the mythical information “You were found in a box in South Korea in 1977, wrapped in newspaper”. For Black Tie, Miriam Yung Min Stein spits into a tube from the company 23andMe, takes a swab with a “genome collector” from the company DeCODEme, and waits for the two market leaders to partially sequence her genome. One of the companies greets her on its website that will reveal her genetic data with the slogan “welcome to you”. Could your individual “construction plan” be your biography? How do you tell your own story when, as in Stein‘s case, its documentation begins only with arrival at a German airport?
Black Tie circles the black hole of origins, the strangely eloquent and “helping” young human genetics industry of these times, and the alienation between my environment and myself – growing in Osnabrück into a body that looks Korean, that carries within it an entire country, a war, another culture, as if in a closed capsule, unknown, speechless – a potential place, a vanishing point, a dream factory.
Adoption, anonymous sperm donation, Christmas parcels for orphaned children – are good people aware of the growing black holes that their good also creates? What would happen if all international aid were stopped? How could the helpers be helped, who are addicted to doing good and expect the thanks they deserve for it? And what was printed on the newspaper in which the baby was wrapped in South Korea in 1977?
After three pieces with great texts as their object – Schiller‘s “Wallenstein”, the first volume of Marx’s “Capital” and the evening news in “Breaking News” – this new work turns a microscopic gaze on the “script” of a life.
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Helgard Haug (1969), Stefan Kaegi (1972) and Daniel Wetzel (1969) studied at the Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft in Giessen and work together (in various combinations) under the name of Rimini Protokoll. They are recognized as being among the leaders and creators of the theatre movement known as "Reality Trend" (Theater der Zeit), which has exerted a powerful influence on the alternative theatre scene. Each project begins with a concrete situation in a specific place and is then developed through an intense exploratory process. They have attracted international attention with their dramatic works, which take place in that grey zone between reality and fiction. Since 2000, Rimini Protokoll has brought its "theatre of experts" to the stage and into city spaces, interpreted by non-professional actors who are called "experts" for that very reason. Since 2004 Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi und Daniel Wetzel are artists in residence at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) Berlin.
Among others, the three have created Shooting Bourbaki (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel), which won the NRW-Impulse Prize in 2003 (the same year the "Theater" magazine yearbook called them the most promising young directors of the year); Deadline (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel), presented in the Berlin Theatre Encounters in 2004; Schwarzenbergplatz (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel), nominated in Austria for the Nestroy Prize for Theatre, and Wallenstein (Haug/Wetzel), performed in the Theatre Encounters in 2006.
Their extremely topical pièce, Mnemopark (Kaegi), won the Jury Prize at the Politik im freienTheater (Politics in Free Theatre) Festival, while Karl Marx: Das Kapital. Erster Band won the Mülheimer Dramatiker Prize in 2007. Last November, Haug, Kaegi and Wetzel were awarded the German DER FAUST prize for theatre and in April 2008 they gained the European Theatre Prize in Thessaloniki in the cateory New Realities. Call Cutta in a box won a Honorary Mention by the Prix Ars Electronica 09 (International Competition for Cyber Arts) in the category Interactive Art.
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