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13th FRiNGE Recklinghausen
13th FRINGE Recklinghausen
COUNTING SHEEP EINE GUERILLA-FOLK-OPER VON MARK MARCZYK UND MARICHKA MARCZYK
Counting Sheep is a striking, visceral exploration into the politics of revolution, beating with the heart of a people yearning for a better tomorrow.
A call-to-action and affirmation of the human condition, Counting Sheepinvites audiences to be part of the Revolution.
The 12-member cast envelops audiences members in this historic time period, as they perform moments of revolution amongst three large screens projecting real-life news coverage and found-footage of the revolution that began in 2013.
DER SANDMANN VON E.T.A. HOFFMANN
After The Black Rider Robert Wilson once again proves his brilliant instinct by turning a dark fairy tale, written in the age of Romanticism into a visually and musically stunning rock-ballad. This time Wilson deals with E.T.A. Hoffmann’s short story The Sandman. At his side: British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi, who is famous for dramatic rock and poetic texts.
ANGST EINE WORT-MUSIK-COLLAGE MIT MATTHIAS BRANDT UND JENS THOMAS
Actor Matthias Brandt and musician Jens Thomas will send a shiver down your spine and make your blood run cold with their scary literary collage of masterpieces of horror and suspense.
TITI TOMBE, TITI TOMBE PAS COMPAGNIE PASCAL ROUSSEAU
Titi loves balancing! He is able to balance anything. But the perfectionist plays alone in his little world. Suddenly, Nana stumbles in with all her freshness, curiosity and spontaneity. She trips and twirls and discovers everything with naivety. Chaos and playfulness meet order and structure. A remarkable show, not only for children; full of poetry and humour, told through the simple language of body and objects.
I AM SOMEBODY SIRQUS ALFON
Hailing from Sweden, Sirqus Alfon heads to FRiNGE with their unique high-tech musical innovations – including lasers.
Skilfully creating a high-tech performance imbued with rhythm, humour and a touch of magic, they represent a genre entirely of their own, in which the audience gets to be the star of the show.
A crossover of artistic creation and stage engineering solutions, I Am Somebody provides an immersive experience of light and sound like you've never seen it before. A show for the internet generation... and everyone else.
LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER KIMCHIBROT CONNECTION
What does modern love look like?
Relationship expectations are shaped by multiple factors ranging from tear-jerking films to disturbing internet-porn.
In this jungle of possibilities, how are you supposed to know what you want?
Until death do us part?
Fun without commitments?
WAT(T) NU?! COLLECTIF DADOFONIC, MIERSCHER KULTURHAUS
Beckett's plays are marked by absurdity; his characters are stumbling through a meaningless world.
Inspired by Beckett's novel Watt, the Luxembourgian collectif DADOFINIC, created this extraordinary play, which seems to understand Beckett, like he’s never been understood before. This inclusive theatre group was founded four years ago and is known for breaking with standards and norms.
Let the actors take you on a trip through this moving and humorous play.
FINDING JOY VAMOS THEATRE
The funny, fearless, international sell-out physical theatre from UK's leading full mask company, Vamos Theatre.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll find joy! Joy is 83: she is feisty, loves to dance and is losing her memory.
Her grandson Danny is rebellious, bright and always getting into trouble.
When Danny decides to look after Joy, they discover a shared playfulness and mutual affection. But is that enough to face the challenges ahead? Finding Joyopened at London International Mime Festival 2014 and premiered at Jyväskylä Festival, Finland in 2015. “An immensely affirmative joie
de vivre" (Stage).
IMBALANCE JOLI VYANN
The highly skilled Joli Vyann present Imbalance in collaboration with internationally renowned choreographer Jonathan Lunn.
Produced by Turtle Key Arts.
Combining exciting acrobatic skills and athletic dance, this energetic, thought-provoking performance explores our obsessive dependence with technology, asking whether our lives are in or out of balance.
It's rare nowadays not to log in at every opportunity – the breakfast table, nights out with friends, even in bed! How well connected are you? When and how do we separate ourselves from the virtual chaos surrounding us?
THE WILDS BURKI&COM
The Wilds: The Vanity of Plumage is a grotesque essay on the beauty and guile of nature in all of us, on missing heroes and narcissism, on the fight for survival and the intraspecific aggression that drives us forward in the form of personal ambitions and conditioned dreams of happiness.
Through motion visualization, uniquely beautiful basic reflexes, motivational processes and intuitive behaviour, Jana Burkiewiczová leads us into a paradise where dancing creates silence, screams, pleasure and the omen of death in a fast sequence of situations, texts and images.
WAITING FOR DADO DADO
DADO delights the audience with his silent clown character Mon Oncle le bossu.
This loveable hunchback brings comedy and emotion on stage.
Mon Oncle performs a potpourri of magic, improvisation and physical comedy.
He can swallow ping-pong balls, balloons and poodles. Eventually everyone is so enamoured with him it doesn’t matter how absurd his art becomes.
Let your heart soar and mind open to the madness of Mon Oncle le bossu.
M.I.S. - ALL NIGHT LONG DON GNU
DON GNU are decked out in hand-knit socks and worn-out sandals and on the hunt for that dang thing called self. In a hard-boiled mix of jackass stunts, slapstick comedy and raw physicality, three men start their hunt.
Outside their comfort zone and coming to grips with their inner beast, the Latino lover, the pushover, the best buddy and others enter a quiet battle for man’s right to be himself.
A backdrop of absurd film projections and live club music set the scene for the characters' physical endeavours – all night long!
ROSE ROSE ROSE EIN DREISPRACHIGES THEATERSTÜCK VON MALIN AXELSSON, KARIN SERRES UND MARIANNE SÉGOL AUS DEM SCHWEDISCHEN VON JANA HALLBERG
UBU ON THE TABLE THÉÂTRE DE LA PIRE ESPÈCE
In this award-winning adaptation of King Ubu by Alfred Jarry, anything goes as Poland's fate is sealed on a table top!
Starring the Bottle as Père Ubu, the Hammer as Bordure, the Big Teapot as King Wenceslas, and many others, your kitchen gear finds a new life as two performers hammer out a small-scale fresco of grandiose buffoonery.
With hundreds of performances around the world, this greatest hit of La Pire Espèce is proud to make its way to Recklinghausen FRiNGE.
WE SHALL OVERCOME - PETE SEEGER EIN INSZENIERTES KONZERT VON HEINER KONDSCHAK
In this production, music itself plays the leading role and tells a story of political and social changes. Spectacular. Emotional. To the point.
BACKBONE
Up close, sweaty, sexy, utterly charming, and contagiously joyful: the Australian circus company Gravity & Other Myths took the world by storm with their first show A Simple Space.
Now the young company sets out to do the same with their new production Backbone, which will have its European premiere at Ruhrfestspiele.
Backbone (literally) tosses around the perception of what strength is, where it comes from and how it is measured. This frenetic celebration of human interconnectedness will test the limits of strength: physical, emotional, individual and collective.
DAKHLA VON ABOU LAGRAA
The title of this brand-new choreography by Abou Lagraa refers to the arab word dahkla which means entrance. Four artists – two hip-hop dancers and two contemporary dancers – take us on a powerful trip to three seaports: Hamburg, Algiers and New York.
The choreography is like a journey from Europe to Africa by way of the American continent. These homeports are an invitation to discover three emblematic cities: white Algiers, brazen New York that never sleeps and Hamburg, which has one of the biggest European electronic music scenes. The music of these different cultures will play a crucial role in the performance, ranging from the Arab-Andalusian music of Algiers, to DJ Mike Denhert from Berlin, or the musical madness of New York in the 80s. Dahkla is a quartet in which French-Algerian choreographer Abou Lagraa returns to the fusion of contemporary and hip-hop dance that is so iconic for his style.
His dancers are as diverse as Lagraa himself, hailing from Algeria, Reunion Island, the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Lebanon or Italy.
1917 EINE REVOLUTIONSREVUE VON TOM KÜHNEL
Tom Kühnel’s 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution revue-like in musically dramatic pictures. After Der Auftrag in 2015 this is his second production for Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen.
DIE ANTIGONE DES SOPHOKLES VON BERTOLT BRECHT
Inspired by Sophocles, Bertold Brecht wrote his own version of Antigone, which takes place in the aftermath of Word War II. In Brecht’s interpretation of the well-known story, it is not destiny but man itself, who is the destructive force.
RAUSCH VON AUGUST STRINDBERG
Den Rausch hat er 1899 wie atemlos aufs Papier gefetzt, zwei Jahre nach der „Inferno-Krise“, einem Gemetzel der Beziehungen, an dem Strindberg fast zerbrach. Er nennt es eine Komödie, doch in ihr drin steckt all das Chaos menschlicher Gefühle, wie aus dem wilden Meer geschöpft mit einem Wasserglas.
LEGO/ANTITESI
Aterballetto, one of the most renowned dance companies in Italy, comes to Ruhrfestspiele for the first time. Two choreographers, one starting out, the other internationally acclaimed, present works that represent their home: Antitesi by Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis and Lego by the Italian Giuseppe Spota. The fascinating tension of opposites is the theme of Antitesi: masculine and feminine, local and global, slow and fast, concrete and abstract. According to Foniadakis, his choreography is an expression of his own inner conflicts.
TOD VON WOODY ALLEN
Woody Allen’s play Death is full of anarchy and absurd comedy. Its humour close to the Marx Brothers exposes dimwits and populist madness.
HERMANN UND DOROTHEA VON JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The theatrical reading of Goethe’s epic Hermann and Dorothea is performed by Maria Happel and Martin Schwab, both highly acclaimed stars of the Burgtheater ensemble. Together, they bring Goethe’s lyrical, musical language to life. The epic tale about flight, assimilation and integration has an almost frightening topicality.
HOOL NACH DEM ROMAN VON PHILIPP WINKLER
Hool is one of the most talked about German novels of the last year.
Philipp Winkler’s story takes us inside the mind of football hooligans.
Disturbingly realistic and enthralling, this book has been waiting for its stage adaptation. Following Rocco und seine Brüder, Hool is Lars-Ole Walburg’s second production opening at Ruhrfestspiele.
He is the artistic director of Schauspiel Hannover.
SECHS PERSONEN SUCHEN EINEN KOMPONISTEN VON CLAUDE LENNERS NACH LUIGI PIRANDELLO
Frank Hoffmann and Claude Lenners took Pirandello’s infamous play Six Characters in Search of an Author and turned it into an extraordinary musical theatre, where actors sing and musicians act.
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