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The Bolaño Project – An Introduction

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Performance Austrian premiere in English
{2666} {Literatur meets Performance} {rrrhoooarrrr}

The Bolaño Project takes on the challenge of familiarising an audience with a great piece of literature. Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño worked on the novel 2666 until he died. For him, it was not only his magnum opus but a way of leaving capital to his descendants. The book was published posthumously, translated into numerous languages and became a world bestseller.

The Bolaño Project – An Introduction is a performance-style introduction into the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an approximation of this novel of the century and an idea how it might be possible to bring the extensive work to the stage: by dissecting it into its five original pieces, by having it interpreted by five artists from five different disciplines. For the opening night, Laia Fabre and Thomas Kasebacher have chosen an element to be found in all parts of the book: fauna. The whole book is populated by countless four-legged friends as metaphors, insults, pet names or simply as what they are. The animals are also a metaphor for the big issues that Bolaño tackles in his novel and that make it so timeless: violence, sex and the friction between reality and fiction.

The collaboration between Laia Fabre and Thomas Kasebacher under the name notfoundyet began in 2007. It has since produced nine performances, the starting material for which the two of them usually find in every-day events and routines, trying to distil certain topics of relevance from them. In doing so, notfoundyet often collaborate with other visual artists, musicians, dancers and performers. These co-operations then birth projects in process-oriented development periods. Based on an initial idea, improvisation, text work, choreographic elements and music are put together in intense working phases to bring about new pieces and new forms of expression.

Saturday, 23 April, from 10 pm

burt night featuring Masha Dabelka und Misonica (just / V ARE).

Credits

Concept & performance
Laia Fabre, Thomas Kasebacher

Dramaturgy
Haiko Pfost

Text support
Ana Lasic

Scent design
Bernhard Weber

Music
Tobias Schurig & JMBKR

Research
Helena Palomero, Víctor Fancelli

Production
brut Wien/Andreas Fleck,
Schauspiel Leipzig/Tobias Schurig

Management
Almud Krejza

A production by Laia Fabre and Thomas Kasebacher/notfoundyet in co-production with Schauspiel Leipzig – Artist in Residence (Leipzig), Euro Scene Festival Leipzig, brut Wien, APACHE – Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi – Teatro Litta e Quelli di Grock associati Milano. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs.

Special thanks to Therapiezentrum Partnerpfote, Katja Hawliczek/Filmtiere, Wiener Kakteenfreunde.

Dates & Tickets

April 2016

Fri. 22.04.2016, 20:00
brut 16 € / 12 € / 8 €

Sat. 23.04.2016, 20:00
brut 16 € / 12 € / 8 €

Sun. 24.04.2016, 18:00
brut 16 € / 12 € / 8 €

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