MEDIATHEK

Dreaming is a lonely business. While Alibi was testing reality, Visitors Only touches on fantasy worlds. In the rehearsal process, Damaged Goods investigated hallucinations and researched the prerequisites for possession and trance. These alternative states of consciousness are constantly present in Stuart’s research processes, but are first articulated as such in Visitors Only. The piece shows people who live in their memories; but also bodies that are reduced to being receivers and transmitters of visual, energetic and acoustic signals. It is a zone of transition where dreams and reality blend. These displaced guests from a fantastic party crawl under a building that is in itself an instigator of insecurity: it has spaces and holes everywhere, as well as tiny doors and slanting walls. Inspired by the work of Gordon Matta-Clark Anna Viebrock designed the asymmetrical two-story house.

// CREDITS //

company: Damaged Goods

directed by: Meg Stuart

music: Paul Lemp, Bo Wiget

text: Tim Etchells, Damage Goods

acting: Loup Abramovici, Simone Aughterlony, Joséphine Evrard, Antonija Livingstone, Sam Louwyck, Andreas Müller, Vania Rovisco, Thomas Wodianka

stage design: Anna Viebrock

video: Chris Kondek

costumes: Tina Kloempken

co-production: Schauspielhaus Zürich, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Kaaitheater  (Brussel), Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam

premiere: 30.April 2003, Schauspielhaus Zürich 

Weitere Fassung aus dem Kaaitheater Brüssel von 2004 in der Mediathek vorhanden.

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