Concept: Sibylle Peters
Camera: Ansuman Biswas u.a.
Cut: Nils Loefke, Sibylle Peters
Text and performance: Sibylle Peters, Charlotte Pfeifer, Ansuman Biswas, Nina Klöckner, Nils Loefke, Simon Mantei, Maik Reif, Michael von Schönberg, Bakary Trawally, Eidglas Xavier.

Thanks to Katharina Duve, Matthias Anton and the MS Stubnitz.

A co-production with Kampnagel, Hamburg. Funded by a grant from the City of Hamburg’s Elbkulturfonds.

Sibylle Peters is a performance artist and cultural scientist. She is also the Artistic Director of FUNDUS THEATER/THEATRE OF RESEARCH in Hamburg and co-founder of the doctoral research programme Performing Citizenship. She often collaborates with the performance collective geheimagentur. Her most recent projects include QUEENS. THE HETERACLUB, which was selected for the Impulse SHOWCASE 2021.

Concept and Choreography: Clara Reiner, Joana Tischkau
Chorus: Dilara Celebi, Nadina Kiala, Rahma Klein
Audio Direction : Jan Gehmlich
Dramaturgy: Elisabeth Hampe
Lighting: Dennis Dieter Kopp
Costumes: Ina Trenk, Nadine Wagner
Assistance: Leonie Kopineck
Graphic and Stage Design: Justus Gelberg
Picture Direction: Anh Trieu
DOP: An Nguyen
Vision Mixer: Nao Aphischai Luu
Production Management: Lisa Gehring
Streaming Operator: Jonathan Kastl
Camera: Michael Maurissens, Max Kluger

A production by Joana Tischkau in co-operation with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and students of the Choreography and Performance course at the Hessian Theatre Academy, funded by the City of Frankfurt Culture Department.

Annedore Adei Antrie is currently the only Person of Colour in the Third Year studying Acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. As a human being who acts she appears on stage and in front of a camera in student and independent productions and hopes that after she has graduated she will be able as a Black performer to work on interesting and complex roles and that she will be spared stereotypical characters marked only by their Blackness. As a participant in the ‘Mini Playback Show’ she would perform Judi Jackson’s hit ‘Still’.

Jan Gehmlich studied Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen. He writes songs and produces audio dramas, podcasts, sound collages and stage works – often in collaboration with others. His work is guided by the principle of putting himself as a white cis male at the disposal of feminist and anti-racist art productions in which women and POCs can be perceived as authors. Because art is only half a living, he also drives a golf cart around Frankfurt airport bringing passengers to their gates. He is seeking work in the fields of sound, performance and emotional care.

Elisabeth Hampe studied Theatre Studies at the Free University Berlin and Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen. She writes concepts, works as a performer and dramaturg and also works in a Berlin record shop. She has a particular interest in the mechanics of representation in Black music and cultural production and has engaged critically with the much-discussed medium of blackfacing on German stages.

Dennis Dieter Kopp studied Theatre, Media and Literature at the University of Hildesheim. Since 2012 he has worked as a lighting technician, performer and dramaturg at venues including the Münchner Kammerspiele and for Oliver Zahn//HAUPTAKTION, Thermoboy FK, christians//schwenk, Henrike Iglesias, Markus&Markus, Marie Simons and Ceren Oran and Joana Tischkau. As a solo performer and member of cobragianni.cobra he has been responsible for ‘Let Me Be the Object of Your Desire’ (2012) and ‘EIN BISSCHEN MEHR MUSS MAN SCHON SEHEN oder: Wie ich mich in einen Schmetterling verwandelte’ (2017). His artistic practice is concerned mainly with issues of critical research into masculinity in searching for queer, feminist and intersectional perspectives. Having grown up in a home with very little pop music,

Clara Reiner only discovered the pleasures of the ‘Mini Playback Show’ through working on PLAYBACK. She now has a nose for the pitfalls of show business and has cultivated an ear worm. When she’s not touring with PLAYBLACK, she studies Choreography and Performance at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen. She makes both plays and things, usually works with others and is interested in non-human actors.

Joana Tischkau dances. One of her first memories is of dancing to Kaoma’s 1989 hit ‘Lambada’ at a children’s birthday party. This motivated her to register for lessons in jazz dance, street dance and videoclip dancing at the dance school next door. She subsequently studied Dance and Acting at Coventry University in Great Britain and Choreography and Performance at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen. Her artistic practice is a hybrid mess where the writings of bel hooks meet beatboxing, where a fitness workout can be produced based on white movement material and Roberto Blanco is worshipped as the king of Black German entertainment. PLAYBLACK is the graduation production for her Master’s degree.

Ina Trenk studies Stage and Costume Design at Offenbach University of Art and Design and came to know Joana Tischkau and Jan Gehmlich by their work together on the project ‘Der Urpsrung der Welt’ initiated by Anne Kapsner at the Hessian Theatre Academy. Although she was immediately inspired by Boney M’s stage outfits, she did not previously know the band. Her favourite song is ‘Green Grass of Tunnel’ by Múm.

On Stage: Tanja Krone, Friedrich Greiling
Backstage: Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs, Eva Lochner, Leonie Kusterer
With texts by: Ulla, Manu, Herr H., Carmen K., Randy, Herr N., Frau M., Eric, Marco, Josi, Kati, Verena, Katja, Antje

With thanks to HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Dresden.

Tanja Krone is a director, curator, performer and musician. In her works she focusses on art as a space for possibilities, the aspect of social participation and searching for the poetic within the documentary. Since 2019 in her “Real” series MIT ECHTEN REDEN she has enabled voices of the past to be heard in a broad range of ways. Krone has been touring the provinces since 2020 together with Friedrich Greiling and the concert performance MIT ECHTEN SINGEN.

Friedrich Greiling is a musician who works both as a composer, lyricist, producer and performer and as a singer and songwriter for theatre, pop, film and clubs. In artistic projects such as VÖLKERWANDERUNG (Turbo Pascal, Theater Freiburg), WECHSELSTUBE (Deutsches Theater Berlin), UNTERSCHEIDET EUCH! (Theater an der Parkaue) and the European expedition FROM A TO BE – TRANSPORT/ART FOR FREE cast members devise and perform pieces of music under his direction. He produces electronic music, amongst other things, together with Jan Hohmann under the name Mittekill.

Lead Artist: Samara Hersch

Creative Technology: Fred Rodrigues, Nathan Fain
Artistic Associate: Cassandra Fumi
Dramaturgy: Maria Rößler
Production Support: Bec Reid
Photography: Pier Carthew

BODY OF KNOWLEDGE was produced as part of Be SpectACTive! in co-production with the SICK! Festival, Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art and Carriageworks. The “At Home” version is a co-production by the International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Hamburg and the Zurich Theater Spektakel.

Samara Hersch is a theatre-maker, director and artist whose practice explores the intersections of contemporary performance and social engagement. She recently completed her Masters degree at Das Theatre in Amsterdam. She has a particular interest in cross-generational discourse and non-hierarchical forms of exchanging knowledge. Her work WE ALL KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING, created with Lara Thoms and seven children from Melbourne, won the ZKB Encouragement Award and the Audience Prize at the Zürcher Theater Spektakel 2019 as well as the Green Room Award for the best contemporary and experimental performance in Melbourne.

An independent production by Ülkü Süngün.

Ülkü Süngün lives and works in Stuttgart, where she studied Sculpture at the State Academy of Art and Design. Her artistic research uses process-orientated and collaborative approaches to examine (the politics of) migration and identity and also memory. Her critical works focus on photography, installation and sculpture, and are also realised in the form of lecture performances. As a lecturer at the Merz Academy and the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design she has also worked on emancipatory issues around teaching. She realised her project ‘The Institute for Artistic Migration Research’ at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. With the eponymous association founded in 2017 she makes her artistic and socially critical practice structurally visible while using spaces on a nomadic basis.

Performers: Friedrich Greiling, Hanni Lorenz, Wolfgang Boos and alternating: Eva Plischke, Angela Löer, Frank Oberhäußer
Direction: Turbo Pascal
Stage Design, Costumes: Janina Janke
Music: Friedrich Greiling
Dramaturgy: Karola Marsch
Assistant Director, Stage Manager, Prompter: Melina Archipoff
Stage Technician: Henning Beckmann
Lighting: Rainer Pagel
Sound and Video Technician: Max Berthold
Make-Up: Karla Steudel
Props: Jens Blau
Contact for touring enquiries: Axel Möbius, axel.moebius[a]parkaue.de

Production: Junges Staatstheater Berlin — Theater an der Parkaue.

Turbo Pascal is a theatre and performance collective from Berlin. They are interested in how people organise and imagine living together. They have made a name for themselves in the area of ”theatrical audience experiments“: they devise interactive stage plays and performative installations which the audience may follow, address, involve themselves in and become independent of in different ways each time. In this way the theatre becomes a public space of assembly and negotiation for social processes. Turbo Pascal includes the founding-members, conceivers and performers Angela Löer, Frank Oberhäußer, Eva Plischke, Veit Arlt, Luis Pfeiffer, the performers and productions managers Margret Schütz and Kathrin Feldhaus, the musician Friedrich Greiling, the stage designer Janina Janke, the video artist Gernot Wöltjen and the sonic artist and programmer Georg Werner.

A project by DARUM, Artistic realisation and Programming: Victoria Halper, Kai Krösche
Artistic Associates: Laura Andreß, Matthias Krische, Clara Hirschmanner
With guest contributions from: Emre Akal, Shabnam Chamani, Simon Dietersdorfer, Franz Hammerbacher, hoelb/hoeb, Andrea Imler, Nora Jacobs, Kristof Kepler, Hannes Benedetto Pircher, Roland Rauschmeier, Mario Schlembach, Andres Stirn, Simon Windisch et. al.
Game dramaturgy: Philipp Ehmann & Clara Hirschmanner (Play:Vienna)
Concept: Kai Krösche

UNGEBETENE GÄSTE is a production by DARUM in co-operation with WERK X-Petersplatz (Wien). Funded by SHIFT, the City of Vienna's Department of Culture as well as Bezirk Innere Stadt.
The new digital version 404–TOTLINK is a co-production between DARUM and Impulse Theater Festival. Funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture, Civil Service and Sports.

The collective DARUM. Darstellende Kunst und Musik (Performing Arts and Music), founded in 2018, operates at numerous intersections between artistic disciplines. It is made up by Laura Andreß, Victoria Halper and Kai Krösche, who have operated in between independent and institutional structures in the performing arts for several years. This core team bring together expertise in numerous artistic disciplines including film and theatre direction, dramaturgy, music, literature, video and media arts, acting and performance. Der Formensuche von DARUM’s search for form is always preceded by the big question “why?” However, questions prove to be the best answers: as a result in its artistic projects DARUM attempts to fail productively in its quest for answers. UNGEBETENE GÄSTE (UNINVITED GUESTS) is DARUM’s debut performance. The performative installation ‘Ausgang: Offen’ was presented in Vienna in April 2020.

Laura Andreß studied Theatre, Film and Media Studies in Vienna. After working as an intern and assistant at several theatres, performance venues and festivals and for independent theatre productions in Vienna she completed a Masters in Dramaturgy at the HfS Ernst Busch in Berlin. In 2018 her graduation project was given its world premiere as part of the Berlin Performing Arts Festival. Laura Andreß has since worked as a freelance dramaturg and production manager (for artists including Florentina Holzinger). Her work has been presented at venues including the Volksbühne Berlin, Festspielhaus Hellerau and the Münchner Kammerspielen. In 2019 she was awarded a Starting Scholarship for the Performing Arts by the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office.

Victoria Halper studied Acting and Directing at the University of Toronto. She emigrated to Austria in 2010 in search of her roots in the Burgenland and worked as an Assistant Director at numerous theatres. From 2013 to 2016 she worked as a director and editor for several films including the detective story ‘Kommissar Taler’, for which she was awarded the City of Traun Prize for Culture in 2015. Since 2016 she has operated as a freelance director in an experimental field between different forms of the performing arts: contemporary circus, essay-performance, video art installations and ludification theatre in public spaces. In 2018 she was awarded a Starting Scholarship for the Performing Arts by the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office.

Kai Krösche is a director and musician. He studied Theatre, Film and Media Studies and Philosophy in Vienna. Since 2005 he has worked as a director, musician and video artist on his own theatre projects as well as in the fields of music, video, dramaturgy and performance at venues including Schauspiel Köln, Landestheater Niederösterreich, WUK Vienna, Volkstheater Vienna, WERK X in Vienna and HochX in Munich. As a screenwriter and director he has produced numerous short film projects since 2002. In 2018 he was awarded a Starting Scholarship for the Performing Arts by the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office. Between 2010 and 2016 he worked as a theatre and film critic for outlets including nachtkritik.de and the Wiener Zeitung.

Concept and Performance: Teresa Vittucci
Dramaturgical Advice: Benjamin Egger, Veza Fernández, Rafał Pierzyński
Scenography: Jasmin Wiesli, Teresa Vittucci
Production Management: groundworkers // Kira Koplin
Production: OH DEAR Zürich
Contact for touring enquiries: Kira Koplin, kira[a]groundworkers.at

Co-Production: Tanzhaus Zürich, Zürcher Theaterspektakel. Developed as part of the PREMIO Prize for Emerging Artists in Theatre and Dance, Espacion do Tempo Montemor. Funded by Migros-Kulturprozent, Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner Stiftung.

With special thanks to Julia Haenni, Gina Gurtner and Simone Aughterlony

Teresa Vittucci is a choreographer and performer. She is a graduate of the Conservatoire in Vienna, the Ailey School and the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) and completed her M.A. at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berne. Since 2013 she has worked as a solo performer and has devised such pieces as ‘UNLEASH’ (2012), ‘LUNCHTIME’ (2015), ‘ALL EYES ON’ (2017) and ‘HATE ME, TENDER’ (2018). She has collaborated with numerous artists including Simone Aughterlony, Marie-Caroline Hominal, Trajal Harrell and Nils Amadeus Lange. Teresa Vittucci is the Young Associate Artist (YAA!) at Tanzhaus Zürich for 2019/20. In 2019 she won the Swiss Dance Prize for HATE ME, TENDER.

By and with Markus Acher, Micha Acher, Cico Beck, Fehler Kuti, Theresa Loibl, Sascha Schwegeler

Dramaturgy: Adele Mike Dittrich Frydetzki
Scenography: Jana Schützendübel
Costumes: Katharina Böhringer
Light: Jonaid Khodabakhshi
Sound: Nicolas Sierig
Camera: Nicole Marianna Wytyczak, Joel Heyd
Cut: Su Steinmassl
Production Management: Veronika Heinrich

A production by Julian Warner in co-production with the Münchner Kammerspiele. Funded by the Department of Culture of the State Capital Munich.

Julian Warner works as a cultural anthropolgist in the fields of curating, music, performance art and research. He is Artistic Director of the Festival der Kulturregion Stuttgart 2022 and curator of the Spielart festival in Munich. Under the alias Fehler Kuti he also releases discursive pop. Warner has worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. The anthology he has edited AFTER EUROPE – Beiträge zur dekolonialen Kritik is published by Verbrecher Verlag in April 2021.

Markus Acher is a singer, percussionist and composer. With his brother Micha Acher he is part of Weilheim band The Notwist. In addition to other band projects Acher also makes music for films, audio dramas and theatre. Together with Micha Acher he curated the festival ‘Alien Disko’ that was held four times at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

Micha Acher is a composer and musician and member of The Notwist. Since 2018 he has performed and composed in a trio with the jazz saxophonist Johannes Enders and the jazz percussionist Günther ‘Baby’ Sommer. Acher also makes music for theatre and films.

Cico Beck is a freelance composer and musician. He trained at Münster University of Music. In addition to his studies, Beck also worked on electronic, experimental and pop music and their intersections. Beck writes and performs music for theatre and dance productions, cinema and TV films and is active in several bands (including The Notwist).

Theresa Loibl studied clarinet at Nuremberg University of Music and also plays tuba, keyboard instruments, percussion and bass clarinet. As an instrumentalist she commutes for various band projects between Munich and New Orleans.

Sascha Schwegeler, born in Cologne, is a graphic designer and musician. He has been playing percussion in bands for as long as he can remember. Schwengeler is co-manager of the Munich record label Gutfeeling.

Concept, Performance, Choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Performance by and with: Renée Copraij, Trixie Cordua, Evelyn Frantti, Lucifire, Annina Machaz, Maria Netti Nüganen, Suzn Payson, Laura Stokes, Veronica Thompson, Lydia Darling
Video Design, Live camera: Josefin Arnell
Sound Design, Live sound: Stefan Schneider
Lighting Design, Technical Direction: Anne Meeussen
Stage Design: Nikola Knezevic
Assistant Stage Design: Camilla Smolders
Dramaturgy: Renée Copraij, Sara Ostertag
Outside Eye: Michele Rizzo, Fernando Belfiore
Theory, Research: Anna Leon
Coaching: Btissame Amadour, Ghani Minne, Dave Tusk
Music Coach: Almut Lustig
Stunt Support: Haeger Stunt & Wireworks
Stunt Instructors: Stunt Cloud GmbH (Leo Plank, Phong Giang, Sandra Barger)
Management: Something Great & DANSCO
Distribution: Something Great
Production: Spirit
Executive Production: Laura Andreß
Financial Administration: Julia Haas/SMART
Contact for touring enquiries: Katharina Wallisch, katharina[a]somethinggreat.de

Co-produced by Tanzquartier Wien, Spring Festival, Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Arsenic, Münchner Kammerspiele, Take Me Somewhere Festival, deSingel, Beursschouwburg, Sophiensæle, Frascati Productions, Asphalt Festival, Theater im Pumpenhaus. Supported by O Espaço do Tempo, Fondation LUMA, De Châtel Award

Thanks to CAMPO Gent, ImPulsTanz, Eva Beresin, Tanz-Archiv MUK Wien, Studierende des Studiengangs „Maskenbild – Theater und Film“ der Theaterakademie August Everding München, Mochi Catering Wien. Funded by Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, Bundeskanzleramt für Kunst und Kultur (BKA), Performing Arts Fund NL.

Florentina Holzinger is regarded as one of the most provocative new choreographers in Europe. In her works she investigates different ways of representing the feminine and the potential of female physicality. Here she deliberately plays on shifting boundaries between high culture and entertainment, pop and trash. Several collaborations with Vincent Riebeek from 2011 onwards were followed by the solo ‘Recovery’, and ‘Apollon’. In 2012 Florentina Holzinger was awarded the Prix Jardin d’Europe at ImPulsTanz for her solo ‘Silk’. She is currently Artist in Residence at ICK in Amsterdam. From 2021/22 she will work at the Volksbühne in Berlin under its new Artistic Director René Pollesch and elsewhere.

Concept: Simone Dede Ayivi
Video: Jones Seitz
Stage Design: Theresa Reiwer
Sound Design, Music: Katharina Pelosi
Light: Frieder Miller
Production Assistance, dramaturgical advice: Selma Böhmelmann
Assistance Design: Chris Erlbeck
Camera: Thomas Machholz
Experts: Nabila Bushra, Fatma Kar, Lenssa Mohammed, Dan Thy Nguyen, Kadir Özdemir
Production Management: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Technical Production: Gefährliche Arbeit

A production by Simone Dede Ayivi und Kompliz*innen in co-production with the Sophiensæle, Berlin. Funded through basic funding from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and subsidy from the Capital Cultural Fund.

Simone Dede Ayivi studied Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice at the University of Hildesheim. In 2016 as part of the akademie der autodidakten at Ballhaus Naunynstraße she devised the theatre project ‘JETZT BIN ICH HIER!’ together with post-migrant young people, in which they examined their current situation living in Germany. As part of FIRST BLACK WOMAN IN SPACE Ayivi spent three weeks with the entire production as Artist in Residence at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. She has been working with a range of different Accomplices since 2012.

Katharina Pelosi studied at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen and works as a sonic artist in the fields of performance, choreography, audio drama and installation. She is a co-founder of the feminist performance collective Swoosh Lieu. From 2015–17 Katharina Pelosi was a member of the Graduate College Performing Citizenship with her practice-based doctoral thesis on “Sound as a medium of cultural memory in post-colonial Hamburg.” She has been awarded fellowships by Casa Baldi in Rome for 2021 and the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul for 2022.

Jones Seitz is a trained audio-visual media designer and has studied Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen and Porto. In addition to personal artistic research into resistance, she* also provides technical direction, lighting and video design for independent projects, such as for Simone Dede Ayivi, Helge Schmidt, Quast&Knoblich and Swoosh Lieu. Jones is a member and co-founder of the group LUKAS UND that produces its own stage plays at the FFT Düsseldorf. Since 2017 Jones has lived and worked mainly in Berlin.

Theresa Reiwer studied Film and Theatre Studies and Stage/Costume Design in Berlin and Istanbul. She works as a scenographer and costume designer for independent theatre productions and feature films. In her own works Reiwer creates VR films and experiments with augmented reality. SLOW ROOMS, her narrative spatial installation with AR elements, was awarded the Mart Stam Preis in 2019 and also helped her secure the Elsa Neumann Scholarship for 2020/21.

Selma Böhmelmann studied Cultural Studies and Political Sciences at Leuphana University. She completed assistant roles in a range of disciplines at institutions including the Schaubühne Berlin, the festival Augenblick mal! and the Volksbühne. In April 2020 she started her Masters in Theatre Studies at the FU Berlin. Since 2020 she has supported Simone Dede Ayivi as a production assistant and dramaturgical associate.

At the beginning of the 1990s the Republic of Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union. However, the newly-created state was unable to provide for the welfare of its citizens. Many left their homeland to work abroad. Parents had to leave their children behind, couples became strangers, families fell apart. The government offered no help and unflinchingly maintained its Christian-influenced rhetoric about the superiority of the traditional family. ABOLIREA FAMILIEI dispels such idyllic clichés of care, love and support.

The performers tell very different family stories. They tell of mothers and fathers both absent and present, of women deprived of their rights, of illness and death, of domestic violence and of a life full of sacrifices, but also of families that go beyond those created by a married heterosexual couple and of those who succeed in escaping discrimination and poverty.

And a collective voice is repeatedly heard: the performers come together as a chorus that evokes a different future. They lay curses on monogamy, the patriarchy, the state, private property and capitalism. In their roles as modern witches, as children, parents and siblings, as a solidary community.

A performance by: Nicoleta Esinencu, Antosea Darca and Elena
Anmeghichean, Cătălina Bucos, Doina-Romanța Dochitan, Nora Dorogan,
Ciprian Marinescu, Kira Semionov, Elena Sîrbu, Doriana Talmazan, Artiom
Zavadovsky
Performers: Elena Anmeghichean, Cătălina Bucos,
Doina-Romanța Dochitan, Nicoleta Esinencu, Elena Sîrbu, Doriana
Talmazan, Artiom Zavadovsky
Lighting Design: Ulrich Kellermann
Sound Design: Janis Klinkhammer
Dramaturgical Consultant: Aenne Quiñones
Production Management: Anna Krauß
Technical Direction: Annette Becker
Contact for touring enquiries: Anna Krauß, a.krauss[a]hebbel-am-ufer.de

Production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Co-production: FFT Düsseldorf, teatru-spălătorie. Funded through the Association of International Producing Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and the Goethe Institut. With generous support from the Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and the HAU Hebbel am Ufer’s Circle of Friends.

Nicoleta Esinencu is a writer and director who lives and works in Chișinău. After a scholarship at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart she became internationally renowned with ‘FUCK YOU, Eu.ro.Pa!’ and won the Romanian dramAcum Theatre Prize. In 2010 Esinencu co-founded the independent initiative teatru-spălătorie for an alternative arts space in Chișinău. Her theatre projects consider social reality in the republic of Moldova and the associated contradictions of the post-Soviet era from a critical perspective on the whole of European history. Since 2012 Nicoleta Esinencu has consistently collaborated with the HAU Berlin, and in 2019/20 she was a guest of the DAAD’s Berlin Artist in Residence programme.

Concept, Direction, Music: Phil Hayes
Creation, Performance: Phil Hayes, John Rowley
Light, Technical Direction: Patrik Rimann
Production Management: Lukas Piccolin
Tour Management: Lise Leclerc

A production by First Cut Productions in co-production with the Gessnerallee, Zurich.

Born on England’s South coast, Phil Hayes is a performer, theatre director and musician. Hayes’s work is based on collaborative processes in which content and form are generated together with his partners. In collaboration with artists and companies such as Forced Entertainment, Simone Aughterlony, Maria Jerez, Nada Gambier and Thom Luz he has produced international touring works including LEGENDS & RUMOURS and THESE ARE MY PRINCIPLES..., often under the name First Cut Productions. In 2020 Phil Hayes was recognised for his stage work by the city of Zurich. He has lived in Zurich since 1998.

John Rowley is a performer, actor, theatre-maker and visual artist. Alongside works with his own company good cop bad cop, he regularly works with Forced Entertainment and National Theatre Wales. Rowley recently toured internationally with Heiner Goebbels’s EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AND WOULD HAPPEN. Rowley has a cameo appearance in Juliet Ellis’s film debut RUBY that won a prize in the Drama section at the 2021 Berlin Independent Film Festival. He lives in Wales.