Arte TV report
Franco-German TV channel reported
on the TERRORisms Festival in Stuttgart
2:05 min | 26 June 2015 | 16.48 | Arte Tv
in German only
Arte TV report
Franco-German TV channel reported
Category: Terrorism
Between 2013 and 2015, 5 UTE theatres explored what ‘terrorism’ meant in their respective societies.
SWR2 Radio: Talk with Reinhold Görling
SWR2 Radio talk with Reinhold Görling on “Terror and Theatre”
at the TERRORisms Festival, Stuttgart
Der Medienwissenschaftler Reinhold Görling im Gespräch mit Marie-Dominique Wetzel/SWR2 zum Theaterfestival “TERRORisms” in Stuttgart “Terror und Theater”
in German only
5:07 min | 26 June 2015 | 12.33 | SWR2 ‘Journal am Mittag’ | SWR2
Photos of the five productions created for the TERRORisms project
The five productions created for the TERRORisms project
at the TERRORisms festival in Stuttgart
from 24 – 28 June 2015
Day #2 of the TERRORisms festival/ 25 June 2015
We chew on the Bones of Time
by Jonas Correll Petersen & ensemble of the National Theatre of Oslo
Director: Jonas Corell Petersen
Cast: Ole Johan Skjelbred, Olav Waastad, Espen Alknes, Sigurd Myhre.
Photo © Marte Garmann/Nationaltheatret
Cast: Ole Johan Skjelbred, Olav Waastad, Espen Alknes, Sigurd Myhre.
Photo © Marte Garmann/Nationaltheatret
Day #3 of the TERRORisms festival/26 June 2015
The Dragonslayers
Written by Milena Marković
Directed by: Iva Milošević
Cast: Nikola Rakočević, Mirjana Karanović, Milan Marić, Radovan Vujović,
Dubravka Kovjanić, Jovana Gavrilović and Srđan Timarov
© Aleksandar Angelovski
Cast: Nikola Rakočević, Mirjana Karanović, Milan Marić, Radovan Vujović,
Dubravka Kovjanić, Jovana Gavrilović and Srđan Timarov
© Aleksandar Angelovski
Day #4 of the TERRORisms festival/27 June 2015
God waits at the Station
Written by Maya Arad
Directed by Shay Pitowsky
Cast: Oshrat Ingedashet, Yuval Shlomovich, Naama Armon, Harel Morad, Shahar Raz, Oded Ehrlich, Naama Armon, Eleanor Flaxman, Lea Gelfenstein, Harel Morad, Shahar Raz, Harel Morad, Oded Ehrlich, Yuval Shlomovich, Eleanor Flaxman, Naama Armon
© Elohim Mehake Ba Tahana
Cast: Oshrat Ingedashet, Yuval Shlomovich, Naama Armon, Harel Morad, Shahar Raz, Oded Ehrlich, Naama Armon, Eleanor Flaxman, Lea Gelfenstein, Harel Morad, Shahar Raz, Harel Morad, Oded Ehrlich, Yuval Shlomovich, Eleanor Flaxman, Naama Armon
© Elohim Mehake Ba Tahana
Day #4 of the TERRORisms festival/28 June 2015
The Shack
Written by Aiat Fayez
Directed by Ludovic Lagarde
Cast: Julien Allouf, Florence Janas, Alexandre Pallu,
Tom Politano, Samuel Réhault, Julien Storini
© Pascal Gely
Cast: Julien Allouf, Florence Janas, Alexandre Pallu,
Tom Politano, Samuel Réhault, Julien Storini
© Pascal Gely
Day #4 of the TERRORisms festival/28 June 2015
5 mornings
Written by Fritz Kater
Directed by: Armin Petras
Cast: Andreas Leupold (Paul), Holger Stockhaus (August),
Anja Schneider (Loretta), Hanna Plaß/stand-in the 27 & 28 June 2015: Katharina Knap (Missy), Manja Kuhl (Julia)
© Bettina Stöß
Cast: Andreas Leupold (Paul), Holger Stockhaus (August),
Anja Schneider (Loretta), Hanna Plaß/stand-in the 27 & 28 June 2015: Katharina Knap (Missy), Manja Kuhl (Julia)
© Bettina Stöß
[Terror] [&] [Night]
[Terror] [&] [Night]
A photographic promenade
![[T] Installation by Marlene Beer and Manja Kuhl. Schauspiel Stuttgart. © Jennifer Ressel](https://conflict-zones.reviews/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/stuttgart-eve._0031-e1435674810990.jpg)
All photographs © Jennifer Ressel / U.T.E.
The Shack
La Baraque
The Shack
Written by Aiat Fayez
Directed by Ludovic Lagarde
Grand and Petit are hopeless, futureless men. Everything spirals out of control when they decide to build a homemade bomb and attack a shoe factory. A few days after the explosion, a man, who has seen everything, is exalted and Groß and Klein become rich with the business of terror.
One after the other, people start showing up at their place to place orders. Grand and Petit try to meet their demands, though they have no ideology and no political awareness of the political meaning of their acts. Using an elliptic form, La Baraque (The Shack) displays a succession of rough sketches, in which nothing never gets too serious: a terribly efficient comical mechanism. An acid and ludicrous phantasmagoria, in which a couple of cranks almost unintentionally make a fortune by going into war business.
Aiat Fayez was born in 1979. He is an author and playwright from France, where he studied philosophy in Paris. In 2009, he published his first book — Cycles des manières de mourir. He left his home country in 2010 and settled in Austria, where he has devoted himself to writing novels and plays. His first play, Les corps étrangers, was published in 2011. A year later, he published his second novel Terre vaine. His third play, Un autre, was published in 2014, while his newest play, La Baraque, was published in 2015.
La Baraque
Written by Aiat Fayez
Directed by Ludovic Lagarde
With Julien Allouf, Florence Janas, Alexandre Pallu, Tom Politano, Samuel Réhault, Julien Storini
Produced by the Comédie de Reims–CDN / Reims Scènes d’Europe
In the context of the TERRORisms project
Text published by the Arche Publishing House
The English and German translation is published as an ebook by CulturBooks
Download the English and German translation for free
Premiere on the 6 February 2015
Performing dates: 28 June 2015, 17:00 + 20:30
At the TERRORisms Festival, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Germany
Performance in French with English surtitles
Published on 10 June 2015
We chew on the bones of time
Vi tygger på tidens knokler
We chew on the bones of time
Written and directed by Jonas Corell Petersen
In cooperation with the ensemble of the National Theatre of Oslo
In the old days, people could be happy. Before the nuclear family, the state and private property. Everyone knew one another, and everyone shared everything: Bacteria, skin diseases, lice, intestinal flora and cousins. You were always a part of a community. Either everyone were sick, and died all at once, or people fought the same battle against each other to survive on scarce resources. Language was not contaminated by foreign words. There was no crime, because there were no laws. Therefore, no one made boring TV shows about it. Nobody wasted time learning to read or going to school, because there was only one book, and someone read aloud from it on Sundays. All week people looked forward to hearing news about doomsday and the torture that could be expected in hell.
Four young people meet at a seminar that lasts for 40 days.
They talk about human development over thousands of years, about the dark site of the human spirit in a cruel world – and about a glimmer of
hope?
During two hours of drama we meet people from history, near and distant, and become acquainted with the conditions they lived under. Is it really something to yearn for? Or should we rather be happy that we live here and now, despite the fact that violence, accidents and illness can strike us at any time? The director Jonas Corell Petersen is the one asking the questions. He will be one of four permanent directors at the National Theatre for the next four years. He has written this piece in collaboration with the ensemble.
Our life is a split second in history of the universe, but we are free to live a long and happy life. The only thing we know for sure is that death is waiting, and that is why we try to cram our lives with experiences. This is a paradox: The more packed our days become, the faster time seems to pass. We are chasing time, and suddenly death overtakes us.
Jonas Corell Petersen was born in Copenhagen in 1979, where he studied theatre theory and philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. He furthermore has a master’s degree in directing from the Norwegian Academy of the Arts. He has staged plays in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany. Petersen won the European Fast Forward prize in 2011 for young directors. In 2013, he won the Hedda award for best performance for young audiences for the multilingual production Eg/Ik/I/Ich. At the moment, he is an in-house director at the National Theatre in Oslo, and resident playwright at the Norwegian Center for New Playwriting in 2016/2017.
We chew on the bones of time
Directed by Jonas Corell Petersen
Written by Jonas Corell Petersen & Ensemble
With Ole Johan Skjelbred, Olav Waastad, Ebsen Alknes, Sigurd Myhre
Dramaturg Olav Torbjørn Skare
Stage & costume design Nina Damerell, Thale Kvam Olsen
Music Gaute Tønder
Lights Øyvind Wangensteen
Make-up artist Wibke Schuler
In cooperation with the ensemble of the National Theatre of Oslo
Produced by the National Theatre of Oslo, Norway
In the context of the TERRORisms project of the U.T.E.
Text published by CulturBooks
freely downloadable in the Norwegian original text & in English and German translation
Premiere on the 15 January 2015
At the National Theatre of Oslo, Norway
On stage the 25 June 2015 20:00
During the TERRORisms festival in Stuttgart, Germany
Performance in Norwegian with English subtitles
Published on 10 June 2015
God waits at the Station
לוהים מחכה בתחנה
God Waits at the Station
Written by Maya Arad
Directed by Shay Pitowsky
God Waits at the Station is a kaleidoscope of fragmented testimonies; one story bursts into another until a weave of broken realities and multiple truths unfold; an infinite cycle of victimization in which the line between victim and victimizer becomes blurry.
Who is the terrorist? A nurse who strayed from the path when her brother was killed by the enemy? An innocent girl who lost her lover when he was set up to marry another woman? A daughter to a father with cancer who was prevented from getting treatment on time due to the political reality?
“She was pregnant”, says the soldier who allowed the suicide bomber to pass through the checkpoint, thus enabling the death of thirty innocent people. “She was not pregnant”, determines the Israeli security agent who was present during the autopsy. Did the taxi driver who drove her become part of a terror attack against his will, or was he a knowing and calculated accomplice? And how do we end the cycle of death if even a pregnant woman is a possible suspect? The characters try to put together the shrapnels of life and death, connecting one piece to the other, but the image that is formed keeps falling apart during the moment of the Boom.
The point of departure of God Waits at the Station is one of the most devastating terror attacks that were performed within Israeli territory by Palestinian terror organizations during the second Intifada (2000-2005). Terror attacks, and mainly suicide bombings, were the central expressions of that violent uprising. Israel responded to these attacks with “targeted killings” of terrorists, which then led to additional attacks, forming an endless cycle of revenge: attack-retaliation-attack. The second Intifada tore apart the Oslo Accords (1993) and led to an escalation which damaged the Israeli and Palestinian economies and took the lives of soldiers and civilians on both sides.
Maya Arad, born in 1976, holds an M.A. in dramaturgy from the University of Amsterdam, where she graduated with distinction. She has been working as a production dramaturg in Europe and Israel, specializing in devised theatre and documentary theatre. As a playwright, her plays so far center on issues of identity, exile, and war. She won the first prize of the international playwriting competition of ITI–UNESCO in 2010 for her play The Diamond Stars, which has also been translated into Norwegian and German.
By Maya Arad
Directed by Shay Pitowsky
With Oshrat Ingedashet, Yuval Shlomovich, Naama Armon, Harel Morad, Shahar Raz, Oded Ehrlich, Naama Armon, Eleanor Flaxman, Lea Gelfenstein, Harel Morad, Shahar Raz, Harel Morad, Oded Ehrlich, Yuval Shlomovich, Eleanor Flaxman, Naama Armon
Dramaturgy by Einat Baranovsky
With the Habima Young Actors Group
Set design Niv Manor
Costumes Natasha Tuchman-Poliak
Music Alberto Schwartz
Movement Sharon Gal
Video Nimrod Zin
Lighting Ziv Volushin
Produced by the Habima- National Theatre of Israel
In the context of the TERRORisms project of the U.T.E
Text published by CulturBooks
freely downloadable in the Hebrew original text & in English and German translation
Premiere on the 13 November 2014
At the Habima – National Theatre of Israel, Tel Aviv
Programme
On stage the stage 27 June 2015 17:00 & 20:30
during the TERRORisms Festival at the Schauspiel Stuttgart, Germany
Performance in Hebrew with English subtitles
Published on 10 June 2015
The Dragonslayers
Змаjеубице
The Dragonslayers
Written by Milena Marković
Directed by Iva Milošević
The Dragonslayers is an ironic historic lesson, it tells the story of the assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand using bustling poetic language to express the demand for freedom. It is not a historical play, but a contemporary piece which examines the position of a young man and his need to express the desire – to be free.
Milena Marković’s The Dragonslayers is dedicated to Gavrilo Princip and the Mlada Bosna movement (Young Bosnia – a political movement who pleaded for the people’s emancipation from the Habsburg Empire). A seventeen-year-old-boy with a gun, a would-be poet whose name represents a historical symbol and a frequent subject of dispute, is presented as the protagonist of this new work by Milena Marković, a poet and a dramaturg whose work is about constantly breaking down prejudices.
The piece is written as a “heroic cabaret”, in a form of an ironic history lesson, and tells the known story of the assassination using bustling poetic language to express the key demand – the demand for freedom. Historical figures are brought to the stage, the conspirators, Young Bosnians, together with the world of ordinary people and their different understanding of the event and its essential meaning. Different characters and situations are built by eight actors that play a few dozens of characters in a few dozen situations.
Milena Marković, born in 1974, is a poet, playwright, scriptwriter and lecturer of script writing. She is one of the most interesting figures in the Serbian artistic community today. Her poems have been published around the world, and her plays are widely performed in theatre; her manuscripts attract attention with their originality. Marković’s play Tracks was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2002. The text was awarded various times, and was also published in the German theatre magazine Theater heute. Her most recent poetry was published in Sinn und Form magazine and Wasafiri magazine (London).
The Dragonslayers
Written by Milena Marković
Directed by Iva Milošević
With Jovana Gavrilović, Mirjana Karanović, Dubravka Kovjanić, Milan Marić, Nikola Rakočević, Srđan Timarov, Radovan Vujović
Set designer Gorčin Stojanović
Costume designer Maja Mirković
Composer and musician Vladimir Pejković
Choreographer Boris Čakširan
Premiere on the 7 June 2014
At the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia
Produced by the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia
In context of the TERRORisms Project of the U.T.E.
Text is published as an E-Book by CulturBooks
Freely downloadable in Serbian and in English & German translation
On stage the 26 June 2015 20:00
At the TERRORisms Festival Stuttgart, Germany
Performance in Serbian with English subtitles
Published on 10 June 2015
The TERRORisms e-book has been released
The E-Book containing the five plays written in the context of the TERRORisms project is available now
www.culturbooks.de/terrorisms
Written over the period of 2013 through 2015, the plays by Fritz Kater in Stuttgart, Milena Marković in Belgrade, Maya Arad in Tel Aviv, Jonas Corell Petersen in Oslo and Aiat Fayez in Reims led to the organisation of a series of world premieres, production exchanges, meetings, conferences and discussions all around Europe and beyond.
These five plays — the original version and their translations into English and German — are now available as an eBook.
Update, 5 February 2016:
Discover an additional translation into Italian (Sonia Antinori: 5 mattine) and a selection of speeches held during the conferences as well as dramaturgical materials of all five plays that were created in context of the TERRORisms project.
Published on 10 June 2015
The Young European Journalists at the TERRORisms Festival in Stuttgart
Photographic impressions taken during our week
at the TERRORisms Festival in Stuttgart, Germany
Photos © by Jennifer Ressel/Lucie Beraha/ U.T.E.
The TERRORisms Festival programme (pdf): TERRORisms_Festival_Programmflyer
