Two foul-mouthed British Manchester United football fans are on a cheap drinking holiday in Eastern Europe. Through a stream of abuse, prejudice and insults they offer their own verdict on the “European project”. Energetic, funny and thought-provoking, this show played with national stereotypes with sometimes shocking bluntness. It was usually performed in a nightclub or [Read more...]
Photo: Bernd Uhlig Theatrical installation and animation of a nightclub. A woman traveller walks into a bar and an evening of strange, intoxicated events begin. This performance takes place in a nightclub. A woman is travelling across Europe and comes into the bar in search of a last adventure before going home. During the Black [Read more...]
The Black Sea Oracle in Hotel Passage, Odessa. Photo:David Baltzer This radical piece of continuous, immersive theatre was developed by Signa in collaboration with the KIT Metropolis Lab. The Black Sea Oracle gives life to the fictitious story of Martha Rubin, an infamous oracle who performed in fairgrounds around Europe in the beginning of the [Read more...]
Live performance, film, 3D audio space, by Hotel Pro Forma, one of the most acclaimed performing arts companies in Europe today. The audience is equipped with headphones and taken on a journey through a multi-dimensional sound and image landscape of the Ukrainian city of Odessa – a virtual relief. A performer, perhaps Vladimir Nabokov as [Read more...]
Salt was adapted as a performance to appear in Odessa as part of SEAS in an unconventional space – a similar approach to Monday in the Sun. Eugenio Barba held a workshop as an additional activity. The performance was played in Italian. Odin Teatret, which in 2008 celebrated its 44th anniversary, is one of the [Read more...]
Sweet Dreams presented on M/S Fryken i Gothenburg. Photo: Bernd Uhlig An electro-acoustic opera-performance, based on the text of the ghost scene from Shakespeare’s Richard III. Bogomazov has won recognition for his visually inventive presentations of classic theatrical texts. In Sweet Dreams, he meditates on the nature of memory. Richard, the bloody-handed king of England, [Read more...]
Waiting… arrives in Skegness. Photo: John Byford A theatrical performance for courtyards, backyards, squares and other public or forgotten open air spaces. Director Mahir Gunsiray explores the stories of three migrants to Europe who are “waiting” to be greeted, received, accepted or simply acknowledged so that they can “belong”. Turkish, Kurdish and English dialogue, physical [Read more...]
Photo: Bernd Uhlig A mixed media performance installation using digital imaging and live action exploring the convoluted journey to becoming a “European” and what lies underneath this apparent homogeneous identity. At the entrance the audiences’ “papers” were examined, their finger prints taken and other personal details as if they were at the Passport Control. The [Read more...]
SUITCASES – Plovdiv Drama Theatre, Bulgaria Concept and direction: Nedyalko Delchev Suitcases is a street theatre performance created by one of SEAS longstanding artists Nedyalko Delchev from Bulgaria and actors from the Plovdiv Drama Theatre. He originally went on a DATE with Lotte Van Der Berg to Antwerp and his initial concept for a SEAS [Read more...]
Photo: Ranka Latinovic Zagreb-based performance collective BADco worked with Intercult on the SEAS Adriatic/Baltic collaboration. Their productions Deleted Messages (which was commissioned by SEAS Adriatic/Baltic) and Memories are Made of… toured to several SEAS venues in advance of the main project as a kind of vanguard. They became a coorganiser in the EU grant and began to [Read more...]
