MEDIATHEK

Embarrassing moments are honest moments. They are moments of weakness that don’t conform to what society expects of us.  But what exactly is embarrassing? The Theater der Peinlichkeit (Theater of Embarrassment) wants to identify that exact moment where we use laughter as an escape or to divert attention.  It leads us to encounter ourselves and others, to a moment in which we see beauty in shame and where we can honestly enjoy ourselves. 

// CAST & CREDITS //

BY AND WITH: Stephan Stock

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: Miriam Walther Kohn

Funded by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Migros Kulturprozent and Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung.

Special thanks to the team of Gessnerallee, Linda Sepp, Anna-Sophie Fritz,Lina Hoppe, die neue Dringlichkeit, vorschlag:hammer and cobratheater.cobra.

// FREISCHWIMMER 2014/2015 //

Intim

The fusion of private and public life is the ubiquitous topic of our times.  Social networks, reality-TV, spying scandals and surveillance – all these have become everyday phenomena. But how exactly does this translate from private life over into the intimate? This year’s Freischwimmer Festival is sending seven artists and groups out on the search for intimacy. Where does the difference between intimacy and privacy lie? How can this even be addressed in a public theatre? Where can boundaries be drawn or crossed, perspectives be inverted, flipping the inside out, or sharing phobias and desires? Freischwimmer 2014/15 finds intimacy in Danish television and Austrian train stations, in slippery radio shows or motherly gyms, at the taxidermists’, in unusual family stories or in a very private dance performance in a public space.

DRAMATURGY: Marcus Droß, Christiane Kretschmer, Christoph Rech, Kathrin Veser, Eva Wolfesberger 

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, INSTALLATION FOYER: Marc Pohl 

PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE: Joy Harder 

FESTIVAL COACH Johanna Höhmann 

TECHNICAL DIRECTION Hannes Ruschbaschan 

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Ignacio Buquete 

TRAINEE PRODUCTION Marie-Claire Perge

FREISCHWIMMER 2014/15 is a joint project of SOPHIENSÆLE, FFT Düsseldorf, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, brut Wien and Gessnerallee Zürich.

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