MEDIATHEK

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 - 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. Who is missing? Who thinks they might give answers on stage that are different from the ones they’d give in response to a telephone survey or in the voting booth? And what have the statistics failed to record? Who lives in a completely different Marseille? Who thinks that this city is different because they are a part of it?

City of Marseille is one of the location-specific variants from around the world in which "100% City" was created in cooperation with local teams. The first “100% City” was staged in Berlin in 2008, and has since visited more than 35 cities, among them London, Paris, Vienna, Cologne, Dresden, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Riga, Tokyo, Philadelphia, Sao Paolo and Melbourne. In each city Rimini Protokoll puts on a different show, which carries the city’s name in the Rimini Protokoll concept.

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

Live band: Namaste

Production: Festival de Marseille

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