MEDIATHEK

The rehearsal process began with photographs of screaming sports fans, boxing fights, raves and snipers… and thus a confrontation with bodies that are out of control or reacting to catastrophes. Alibi is movement research in extreme situations; the rehearsals were also confronted by the shock and the aftermath of the terror acts in the USA. In her first work for the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Meg Stuart looks at the moment in which being a multimedia witness turns into personal involvement and the “wallflowers/observers” of the daily news become active. She creates an exciting, raw and depressing study of the emotional poverty and increasing tendency towards violence that points to a loss of security and the paths of social pressure. Omnipresent violence ' otherwise hidden in Stuart’s pieces ' is shown and celebrated. Alibi exercises are existential acts of violence in this highly direct work. 

// CREDITS //

stage design / costume: Anna Viebrock 

dramaturgy: Bettina Masuch 

video: Chris Kondek 

text: Tim Etchells, David Wojnarowicz, Katherine Jones, Damaged Goods 

light design: Gunnar Tippmann 

technical director: Britta Mayer 

sound: Oliver Houttekiet 

stage design assistance: Frieda Schneider 

costume assistance: Carola Ruckdeschel 

video assistance: Aliocha Van der Avoort 

production management: Bettina Holzhausen 

music: Paul Lemp / Peleton in collaboration with: Cobra Killer, Low Tide Digitals, Marek Goldowoski, Trost, Peter Simon, Bo Wiget, M.Flux. 

strings: Milica Lazic (Violin), Anne Katrin Faber (Violin), Yvonne Smeulers (Violin), Sophie Lüssi (Violin), Isabel Mederos Castro (Viola), Iris Schindler (Cello), Yoon-Jeong Woo (Cello), Zin-Young Yi (Cello) 

conductor: Bruno Weinmeister 

production: Damaged Goods 

co-production: Schauspielhaus Zurich, Kaaitheater (Brüssel), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse) 

(Quelle: damagedgoods.be)

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