MEDIATHEK

Short documentary on the creation process of "100% Marseille" by Rimini Protokoll.

// About 100% Marseille

For statistical purposes, people are regularly converted into pie wedges, bars and curves – which are then used to make political arguments or to create economic cost-benefit strategies. What if these statistics were given faces? What if Marseille’s population was represented on stage by 100 persons?

In a world bombarded with ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’ this cross-section of the society could tell the truth of modern Marseille’s life in a way graphs or pie-charts never could. Spreading throughout the city over three months ago, 100% Marseille began with the casting of one member who had to recruit another in 24 hours, who then recruited another and so on – all according to specific criteria of age, gender, household type, geography and ethnicity mirroring the demographic make-up France most important port city.

100% Marseille is a gathering that is a city, a group just beginning to experience itself, a choir that has never practiced, an impossible entity with many faces – assembled into ever-changing new group pictures: group pictures as replacement for family – as fleeting portraits of belonging. Sorted according to age or address, gender, political leanings, preferred local pub, means of transport, sandwich spread, playwright and then, bit by bit, as a sea of voices, as a geometric body on 100 square metres of stage.

/ Cast & Credíts /

Concept: Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel

Direction: Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel

Sound design: Frank Böhle

Stage design: Mascha Mazur, Marc Jungreithmeier

Technical director / Lighting and projection design: Marc Jungreithmeier

with 100 citizens of Marseille

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