Theater HORA / Jérôme Bel
Disabled Theater
© © Michael Bause ©
Disabled Theater
Assistance and Translation, Simone Truong, Chris Weinheimer
Dramaturgy, Marcel Bugiel
Assistant Jérôme Bel, Maxime Kurvers
Trainee, Jean-Florent Westrelin
By and with Damian Bright, Matthias Brücker, Remo Beuggert, Matthias Grandjean, Gianni Blumer, Julia Häusermann, Sara Hess, Miranda Hossle, Lorraine Meier, Tiziana Pagliaro, Peter Keller
Production Manager, Ketty Ghnassia
Artistic Direction Theater HORA, Michael Elber
Administration Theater HORA, Giancarlo Marinucci
Production Theater HORA (Zurich) with the support of Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, Pro Helvetia
Coproduction Theater HORA ; R.B. Jérôme Bel ; Festival AUAWIRLEBEN (Berne) ; kunstenfestivaldesarts (Bruxelles) ; Festival d'Avignon ; Ruhrtriennale ; La Bâtie – Festival de Genève ; Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) ; Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d'Automne à Paris
Corealisation Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Warm Thanks to Sasa Asentic, Urs Beeler, Tom Stromberg, Andreas Meder (Internationales Theaterfestival OKKUPATION!), Stiftung Züriwerk, Fabriktheater Rote Fabrik Zürich and to the public rehearsals's Audience
With the support of HenPhil Pillsbury Fund The Minneapolis Foundation & King’s Fountain
With the support of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Foundation for Culture
With the support of Fonds Handicap & Société
Premiered May 10, 2012 at kunstenfestivaldesarts (Bruxelles)
For Jerome Bel, “disabled” describes a theater that is “altered, slowed down, weakened, artless.”
Following an invitation from Hora Theater, Jerome Bel has worked with intellectually challenged actors, placing the performers at the heart of the creative process. Their otherness and condition of minority is exposed to challenge social and theatrical conventions.
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