andcompany&Co.
Not My Revolution, If...: The Stories of Angie O.
andcompany&Co. is among the most important political voices in international theatre. Ever since its foundation, the collective has been dedicated to a quite unique way of processing and examining socio-political issues using contemporary devices, partly taken from popular culture. In their most recent work, the group analyses benevolence and charity as a social phenomenon subject to constant change.
Not My revolution, If...: The Stories of Angie O. centres on a fictional activist in the global anti-globalisation movement, who gets involved wherever people gather in loose associations: at the Intergalactic Conference Against Neoliberalism, the Battle in Seattle or Occupy Wall Street. Angie O. has her tent pitched up at borders, on greens and in front of banks to convince bankers as if she was a reborn Joan of Arc: “Service equals loving thy neighbour, a service to your neighbour equals a service to your client”. Clad in the shape of an activist musical, the performance argues out the contradictions of our neoliberal age, where even charity becomes an economic factor and activism and innovative productive asset. Performers from Germany and the Netherland gather on stage to form a peer group asking: What shall we do? What shall we leave? People can only help when there are people there – MERRY CRISIS AND A HAPPY NEW FEAR!
andcompany&Co. are an international collective of artists established in 2003 by Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord and Sascha Sulimma in Frankfurt am Main. Acting as co-directors, they form an open network constantly complemented by new artists from various disciplines.
Pressestimmen
"Within their new show, andcompany&Co focus on the contradictions regarding the global protest culture. Self-evidently they don’t engage in straight-lined narrative structures but break out in another discursive direction to destroy the myth of a positive capitalism and an even better society. In the course of this they provide quite a productive chaos and freely adapt an update of Brecht." Berliner Zeitung
Credits
Concept & direction andcompany&Co. (Karschnia / Nord / Sulimma) Created by & featuring Nicola Nord, Krisjan Schellingerhout, Claudia Splitt, Vincent van der Valk&Co. Text Alexander Karschnia&Co. Set design Noah Fischer&Co. Costumes and collaboration on the set Franziska Sauer&Co. Light Rainer Casper Sound Mareike Trillhaas Assistant director Hilkje Kempka Technical director Marc Zeuske Company Management Katja Sonnemann
A production by andcompany&Co. in coproduction with HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, FFT Düsseldorf, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, brut Wien and House on Fire with the support of the European Union’s Cultural Programme. Financed by funds of the Berlin Capital Cultural Fund, by the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs and Kunststiftung NRW. The premiere took place on 24 November 2016 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1) in Berlin.
Dates & Tickets
February 2017
brut 16 € / 12 € / 8 €
brut 16 € / 12 € / 8 €
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Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien