NOT MY REVOLUTION, IF...: The Stories of Angie O.

NOT MY REVOLUTION, IF…: The Stories of Angie O. tells the stories of Angie O., a fictional anti-globalization activist, who pitches her tent wherever protest rises: at the intergalactic conference against neoliberalism, the battle of Seattle or Occupy Wall Street – from fair-trade coffee to protest against WTO and back. Just like a reborn version of Brecht’s ‘Saint Joan of the Stockyards’ Angie O. tries to convince bankers of the power of loving your fellow man or woman: “Service = loving your fellow man or woman, serving your fellow man or woman = serving the customer.” What started off as a retrospective of all forms of protest suddenly gained topicality with Trump’s election. andcompany enter the big turmoil of the battle as the most peaceful army with powerful songs.  The contradictions of our neoliberal times, in which even benevolence and charity turned into economic factors and activism into innovative productive forces, are being staged in the style of an agitation musical. German and Dutch performers form an affinity group on stage and ask: What can be done? What should not be done? How can we use our bodies? To what extent do we expose ourselves? It is agreed: Only people help where people exist: MERRY CRISIS AND A HAPPY NEW FEAR!

Cast

conceived and directed by: andcompany&Co. (Karschnia / Nord / Sulimma)

conceived & performed by:
Noah Fischer, Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord, Krisjan Schellingerhout, Claudia Splitt, Vincent van der Valk&Co.
Text: Alexander Karschnia&Co.
Music: Sascha Sulimma, Vincent van der Valk&Co.
Stage Design: Noah Fischer&Co.
Costume Design and Stage Co-Design: Franziska Sauer&Co.
Light Design: Rainer Casper
Sound Design: Mareike Trillhaas
Production Assistant: Hilkje Kempka
Technical Director: Marc Zeuske
Company Management: Katja Sonnemann
Press: AugustinPR

A production by andcompany&Co. in coproduction with HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, FFT Düsseldorf, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, brut Vienna and House on Fire funded by the EU programme for Culture.

Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund (Haupstadtkulturfonds), the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs and Kunststiftung NRW.

 

 

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