Jérôme Bel / Theater HORA
Disabled Theater
© Michael Bause ©
© Michael Bause ©
Disabled Theater
Concept, Jérôme Bel
By and with Remo Beuggert, Gianni Blumer, Damian Bright, Matthias Brücker, Matthias Grandjean, Julia Häusermann, Sara Hess, Miranda Hossle, Peter Keller, Lorraine Meier, Tiziana Pagliaro
Assistant and Translation, Simone Truong, Chris Weinheimer
Dramaturgy, Marcel Bugiel
Jérôme Bel Assistant, Maxime Kurvers
Production Director, Ketty Ghnassia
Artistic Direction Theater HORA, Michael Elber
Formation Manager Theater HORA, Urs Beeler
Administration Theater HORA, Giancarlo Marinucci
Production Theater HORA – Stiftung Züriwerk (Zurich) with the support of Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, Pro Helvetia, Stiftung Denk an Mich, Ernst Göhner Stiftung // Coproduction Theater HORA ; R.B. Jérôme Bel ; Festival AUAWIRLEBEN (Berne) ; Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Bruxelles) ; dOCUMENTA (13) ; Festival d’Avignon ; Ruhrtriennale ; Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; La Bâtie – Festival de Genève ; Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris //
Corealisation Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; Festival d’Automne à Paris // Special thanks to Sasa Asentic, Tom Stromberg, Andreas Meder (Internationales Theaterfestival OKKUPATION!), Stiftung Züriwerk, Fabriktheater Rote Fabrik Zürich and to the public rehearsals's Audience // Disabled Theater by Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA is invited to the 50e edition of Theatertreffen Berlin 2013. // 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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