THE NOTEBOOK
DAS Grosse Heft 2017-2021 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS BÜHNE AARAU ÖRKÉNY ISTVÁN SZÍNHÁZ THEATER BUDAPEST KELLERTHEATER WINTERTHUR GARE DU NORD BASEL THEATER WINKELWIESE ZÜRICH TOJO THEATER BERN THÉÂTRE DES OSSES FRIBOURG A musical theater based on the book “le grand Cahier” by Agota Kristof Two nine-year-old twins are the protagonists of “the Notebook”. Because of the ongoing […]
ALLE DEINE NAMEN
2011-2013 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS GARE DU NORD BASEL SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN THEATER WINKELWIESE ZÜRICH BÜHNE AARAU KLEINTHEATER LUZERN THEATER DIE TONNE REUTLINGEN (DE) Plunge into the poetic world of Raphael Urweider. “Alle Deine Namen” is 26 poems about women’s first names, arranged in alphabetical order. Astride Schlaefli and Anna Trauffer met the author and decided […]
ICH MOECHTE NUR NOCH SPIELEN
2015 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS THEATER WINKELWIESE ZÜRICH BÜHNE AARAU TOJO THEATER BERN FORUM NEUE MUSIK LUZERN A musical theater inspired by Max Frisch’s “Drafts for a Third diary” and interpreted by the six men of the “ensemble für neue musik zürich” on the occasion of their 30th anniversary. The small village of Berzona in Ticino […]
JAKOB VON GUNTEN
2014 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS Bühne Aarau A participatory musical theater based on the book “Jakob von Gunten” by Robert Walser “We learn very little here, we lack teaching staff, and we boys from the Benjamenta Institute will achieve nothing, that is, we will later be very humble and subordinate people. ” From the very first […]
KONZERTEN
2018 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS Bühne Aarau The barracks of Aarau and the former indoor riding arena are immediate neighbours. However, there hasn’t been any direct contact between the two since the arena became a cultural venue. In order to make up for this lack, the Tuchlaube Theatre is setting up a unique project with very […]
LES ENFANTS DE BARBARIE
2008 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS BÜHNE AARAU TOJO THEATER BERN From 1926 to the 1970s, the aid organisation “Kinder der Landstrasse” (Pro Juventute) separated at least 2000 Jenisch, Sinti and Roma children from their families and placed them in orphanages and psychiatric clinics. The Travellers’ concept of home and life was perceived as a threat, they […]
LES PARADIS BARBARES
2009 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN BÜHNE AARAU FORUM NEUE MUSIK LUZERN 5 performers and 3 asylum seekers. A play in the form of an opera with multiple narrative layers full of suspense, led by characters lost between fiction and reality, between music, dance, theatre and performance. Omnipresent, the soundtrack is elaborated like that […]
LES RITUELS BARBARES
Les rituels barbares 2007 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS ROTE FABRIK ZÜRICH BÜHNE AARAU SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN A musical theater based on the crime of the Papin sisters (1933). The crime on which this play is based is typical of a time when servants were considered only in terms of the use they could be put to. […]
A SOLDIER’S TALE
2016 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS BÜHNE AARAU ARGOVIA PHILHARMONIC A youth militia takes ownership of the Faustian story and explores how the fairy tale can be told today. They know where the plug is in the old army riding arena. How a mixing desk works, and how to erect scaffolding. Producing sound recordings, eliciting sound from […]
MONTE VERITA
MONTE VERITA 2004 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN A general assembly of the members of Monte Verità. Including the welcome address by the president, the reading of the statutes, the cashier’s report… And an ambiguous relationship with the spectators: they are treated as fellow members by the actors. The commemoration of those missing is […]