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15.9.21 // 10.30 // Vorstadttheater Basel
16.9.21 // 9.30 // Vorstadttheater Basel
duration: 60 min.
for ages 6+
language: little spoken language, German

FORGOTTEN CREATURES AND LOST CAUSES

Welcome to Mr Ut’s store, where special plants and animals come to life. Meet the last Dodo and the magical Thylacine, the curious Rhino and the eager carnivorous plant. Mr Ut loves everything in his store. That’s why he prefers not to sell anything. Because where are things when they are gone? And what would remain of Mr. Ut if he no longer has his store? But nothing lasts forever and so Mr. Ut, his animals and his plants have to team up to save the shop.

This colourful, lively play is dedicated to the transience of things – and in particular the extinction of living beings. Tim Velraeds and Cat Smits reanimate creatures that have long since disappeared on stage. In their magical world they playfully show the connection between man and nature: What role do we play in the world and what choices can we make?

Direction: Duda Paiva

Idea: Tim Velraeds

Performance: Tim Velraeds and Cat Smits or Alexander Brouwer and Nora Tinholt

Dramaturgy: Kim Kooiman

Puppets: André Mello and Duda Paiva

Sound: Wilco Alkema

Lighting: Mark Verhoef

Stage: Tim Velraeds and Daniel Patijn

Costumes: Atty Kingma

With the kind support of Anton Schorer

www.dudapaiva.com

15.9.2021 // 18.00 // Münsterplatz square

16.-19.9.2021 // 10.00-19.00 // Münsterplatz square

for all ages
without words
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

It has kitchen utensils, blenders, electric meat knives and bread slicers. Discovered, found, collected. There are serving plates and the first sound. The first module is created from a wide variety of sounds. Sketches connect clinking glass, sounding pots, striking woods and metal rods with drives. Individual independent modules that move within themselves build up into a tower.

Wheels turn, ropes pull, rods strike and push, the most diverse sounds and rhythms mix to form music, the score develops in a logical sequence, everything takes its course, the lights go on and off, it turns and strikes, it sounds and tones in the tower, it plays. Music.

https://www.rolfscherler.com/

15.09.21 // 18-20h // Münsterplatz square

16.09.21 // 18-20h // Münsterplatz square

17.09.21 // 16-20h // Münsterplatz square
18.09.21//12–19// Münsterplatz square
19.09.21//12–19// Münsterplatz square

for ages 8+
languages: German, English
free participation without registration

American puppeteer Anna Paniccia has been making her own puppets for years and has worked for the “Muppets” in New York for a long time. In this walk-in workshop, she shows you how to make your own puppet and shares her best tips with you. You choose between different body and head shapes and materials and let your imagination run wild. Thanks to two sticks you can bring your figure to life and learn from the expert how to do it in the easiest way.

www.annapaniccia.com

OPENING SHOW

PUNCH AGATHE AND THE ORACLE OF SERNF
Gütesiegel Kultur* aka Stefanie Oberhoff (DE)
+ snuff puppets Melbourne + Espace Masolo Kinshasa + XIS BAG COLLECTIVE Barcelona

15.09.21 // 19.30 // Münsterplatz square
for all ages
without words
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

***Due to the uncertain weather outlook, the BAFF! opening ceremony will not take place on Münsterplatz as planned, but in the Markthalle Basel.***

PUNCH AGATHE is the greatest Punch in the world and at the same time the mother of all troublemakers. As a superhero – unpredictable, rebellious, and silly, equipped with a blowtorch, drill and explosives, constantly accompanied by her hippo – she hurries around the globe with a musical roar and an army of ghostly court jesters in search of trouble. Born in Melbourne, raised in Kinshasa, her body has grown through all the experiences she has had, starting out as the size of a pin and now measuring 16 metres. She grows as she cries!

Now PUNCH AGATHE is stopping at the Münsterplatz square to meet her peers: Congolese rapper Orakle Ngoy has crossed the Alps, collecting all the stories along the way that were put aside at some point and weaving them into lyrics and songs. An indescribable voice and a giant body come together to tell each other about the ups and downs of their journeys… An encounter that goes through marrow and bone.

***During the event there is a certificate obligation according to the ggg principle: Please bring a valid certificate and identity card. During the show, masks are compulsory in addition to the certificate requirement. Please arrive at 6.30 p.m. at the latest so that the event can start on time despite the entrance check.***

Artistic Director: Stefanie Oberhoff

Performers: Laura Boser, Jule Bröcker, Anne Brüssau, Emma Casadevall Sayeraz, Marta Gonzales Cruz, Cèlia Legaz, Venus Villa López, Stefanie Oberhoff, Jasper Schmitz

Music: Sarah E. Müller / DJ Natur, Orakle Ngoy, Strombo Kayumba, Thomas Maos, Johannes Werner

Co-production: snuff puppets Melbourne, Espace Masolo Kinshasa, XIS BAG KOLLEKTIV Barcelona, BAFF! International Figure Theatre Festival Basel

www.punchagathe.com

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15.9.21 // 10.30 // Vorstadttheater Basel
16.9.21 // 9.30 // Vorstadttheater Basel

duration: 60 min.
for ages 6+
language: little spoken language, German

FORGOTTEN CREATURES AND LOST CAUSES

Welcome to Mr Ut’s store, where special plants and animals come to life. Meet the last Dodo and the magical Thylacine, the curious Rhino and the eager carnivorous plant. Mr Ut loves everything in his store. That’s why he prefers not to sell anything. Because where are things when they are gone? And what would remain of Mr. Ut if he no longer has his store? But nothing lasts forever and so Mr. Ut, his animals and his plants have to team up to save the shop.

This colourful, lively play is dedicated to the transience of things – and in particular the extinction of living beings. Tim Velraeds and Cat Smits reanimate creatures that have long since disappeared on stage. In their magical world they playfully show the connection between man and nature: What role do we play in the world and what choices can we make?

Direction: Duda Paiva

Idea: Tim Velraeds

Performance: Tim Velraeds and Cat Smits or Alexander Brouwer and Nora Tinholt

Dramaturgy: Kim Kooiman

Puppets: André Mello and Duda Paiva

Sound: Wilco Alkema

Lighting: Mark Verhoef

Stage: Tim Velraeds and Daniel Patijn

Costumes: Atty Kingma

With the kind support of Anton Schorer

www.dudapaiva.com

15.9.2021 // 18.00 // Münsterplatz square

16.-19.9.2021 // 10.00-19.00 // Münsterplatz square

for all ages
without words
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

It has kitchen utensils, blenders, electric meat knives and bread slicers. Discovered, found, collected. There are serving plates and the first sound. The first module is created from a wide variety of sounds. Sketches connect clinking glass, sounding pots, striking woods and metal rods with drives. Individual independent modules that move within themselves build up into a tower.

Wheels turn, ropes pull, rods strike and push, the most diverse sounds and rhythms mix to form music, the score develops in a logical sequence, everything takes its course, the lights go on and off, it turns and strikes, it sounds and tones in the tower, it plays. Music.

https://www.rolfscherler.com/

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15.9.21 // 10.00 // Theater Palazzo Liestal
16.9.21 // 10.00 // Theater Palazzo Liestal

duration: 25 min.
for ages 2+
without words

 A big, soft something stands on the stage. It wobbles and wobbles, then it becomes still again, it stretches and stretches and slowly becomes awake. Who or what is hiding in it? An arm, a leg and another arm…

In this enchanting piece for the little ones, dancer Cornelia Hanselmann and musician Christoph Scherbaum use material, sounds and movement to tell of becoming and growing, of exploring and shaping worlds. From waking up to going to sleep – sometimes quiet, sometimes loud, delicate and strong, sometimes visible, sometimes hidden. In the play between music and dance, the two explore the material and take young and old on a journey of discovery.

Dance: Cornelia Hanselmann

Choreography: Dafni Stefanou and Cornelia Hanselmann

Live music & composition: Christoph Scherbaum

Scenography: Linda Rothenbühler

Outside Eye: Emily Magorrian

Lighting design & technics: Nik Friedli

Technical tour: Matteo Baldi

Concept/Idea: Cornelia Hanselmann

Collaboration play development: Margarita Kennedy and Hannah Berner

Flyer: Jolanda Suter

Production: Lowtech Magic Co-production: Bühne Aarau

www.lowtechmagic.ch

15.09.21 // 18-20h // Münsterplatz square

16.09.21 // 18-20h // Münsterplatz square

17.09.21 // 16-20h // Münsterplatz square
18.09.21//12–19// Münsterplatz square
19.09.21//12–19// Münsterplatz square

for ages 8+
languages: German, English
free participation without registration

American puppeteer Anna Paniccia has been making her own puppets for years and has worked for the “Muppets” in New York for a long time. In this walk-in workshop, she shows you how to make your own puppet and shares her best tips with you. You choose between different body and head shapes and materials and let your imagination run wild. Thanks to two sticks you can bring your figure to life and learn from the expert how to do it in the easiest way.

www.annapaniccia.com

Premiere 16.9.21 // 18.00 and 21.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1
17.9.21//18.00 and 21.00 //Kaserne, Rossstall 1
18.9.21 //15.30, 19.00 and 22.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1

Duration: 60 min.
for ages 14+
languages: German, English

Inspired by the philosopher Rosi Braidotti, the performers explore the construct of the Pregnant Posthuman. The Pregnant Posthuman understands nature and technology not as opposites but as a continuum. His pregnancy is technology. Its body is fiction and reality, is animation and image. It is an ultimate, intimate experience of plurality, of possibility and of change. It is an attempt to think being and becoming differently.

Virtual Wombs brings virtual reality into the theatre space and invites the audience on an immersive journey through speculative states. In a techno-intensive setup, the work explores aspects of mutation and transformation and potentials of worldbuilding, the creation of digital, reality-expanding worlds. The piece is a hybrid of a spatial sound environment, a light installation, and a VR trip. The audience is invited into the experience in small groups of 15 people and taken on a tender journey into the womb of the pregnant posthuman by physical and virtual performers.

Concept, content, artistic direction: Anna Fries

Concept, sound installation, composition: Malu Peeters

Technical Artist, Dramaturgy: Ambrus Ivanyos

Light installation: Eva G. Alonso

Production management D: Sina Kießling

Production management CH: ProduktionsDOCK

Performance: N.N.

Production: Hairygaze

Co-production: Kaserne Basel, HAU Hebbel am Ufer

16.9.21// 19.00 // ROXY Birsfelden
duration: 55 min.
for ages 14+
language: German

How does our body endure pain? What do we release when we fight? Through their martial arts practice, queer people confront their bodies with blows. These professional fighters work daily to persevere, to endure, to create distance. A combative game around exhaustion and strength in vulnerability. A ceremony that seeks to shift weight.

In his solo for a (queer) fighter (65kg) and an aqua punching bag (37kg), Rafi Martin traces this stirring bodily experience. A video creation about a queer and anti-racist martial arts community in Germany allows the audience to witness the necessity of creating one’s own space and pushing the boundaries to inhabit bodies – historically divided between those who are “worth defending” and those who, disarmed or incapacitated, remain defenceless.

Ideas/Performance/Conception: Rafi Martin
Co-development/Play/Performance in alternation: Li Kemme

Director/Conception: Julika Mayer

Music: Méryll Ampe

Light/Space: Joachim Fleischer

Video: Cécile Friedmann

Martial choreography: Kristianne Salcines

Boxers and martial artist: Everlyne Odero, Rahel Barra und Makisig Akin

Co-production: Franco-German Coproduction Fund Transfabrik for the Performing Arts, Internationales figuren.theatre.festival Erlangen, Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes in Charlevilles-Mézières, TJP Centre Dramatique National Strasbourg – Grand Est, BAFF! International Figure Theatre Festival Basel

www.rafimartin.com

Premiere 16.9.21 // 18.00 and 21.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1
17.9.21//18.00 and 21.00 //Kaserne, Rossstall 1
18.9.21 //15.30, 19.00 and 22.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1

Duration: 60 min.
for ages 14+
languages: German, English

Inspired by the philosopher Rosi Braidotti, the performers explore the construct of the Pregnant Posthuman. The Pregnant Posthuman understands nature and technology not as opposites but as a continuum. His pregnancy is technology. Its body is fiction and reality, is animation and image. It is an ultimate, intimate experience of plurality, of possibility and of change. It is an attempt to think being and becoming differently.

Virtual Wombs brings virtual reality into the theatre space and invites the audience on an immersive journey through speculative states. In a techno-intensive setup, the work explores aspects of mutation and transformation and potentials of worldbuilding, the creation of digital, reality-expanding worlds. The piece is a hybrid of a spatial sound environment, a light installation, and a VR trip. The audience is invited into the experience in small groups of 15 people and taken on a tender journey into the womb of the pregnant posthuman by physical and virtual performers.

Concept, content, artistic direction: Anna Fries

Concept, sound installation, composition: Malu Peeters

Technical Artist, Dramaturgy: Ambrus Ivanyos

Light installation: Eva G. Alonso

Production management D: Sina Kießling

Production management CH: ProduktionsDOCK

Performance: N.N.

Production: Hairygaze

Co-production: Kaserne Basel, HAU Hebbel am Ufer

16.9.21 // 21.00 // Vorstadttheater Basel

duration: 50 min.
for ages 13+
language: little spoken language, French

Trailer

The painter and sculptor’s unfulfilled longing to breathe life into his creation is destroying him. In a gesture of desperation, he sculpts clay onto his head, burying himself in the material, eradicating his identity and becoming a living work of art. Yet the material blinds him and he is forced to look inward, into the very depths of himself.

In a fascinating play, Olivier de Sagazan switches between identities – from man to animal and from animal to various hybrid creatures. He pierces, obliterates, and unravels the layers on his face in a frenzied search for new essence and form. Through this act he gives new meaning to the notion of life, offering a captivating, disturbing, and stirring glimpse into an alternative selfhood utterly unconstrained by inhibition.

Performer: Olivier de Sagazan

Artistic direction: Gaelle Le Rouge

www.olivierdesagazan.com

15.9.2021 // 18.00 // Münsterplatz square

16.-19.9.2021 // 10.00-19.00 // Münsterplatz square

for all ages
without words
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

It has kitchen utensils, blenders, electric meat knives and bread slicers. Discovered, found, collected. There are serving plates and the first sound. The first module is created from a wide variety of sounds. Sketches connect clinking glass, sounding pots, striking woods and metal rods with drives. Individual independent modules that move within themselves build up into a tower.

Wheels turn, ropes pull, rods strike and push, the most diverse sounds and rhythms mix to form music, the score develops in a logical sequence, everything takes its course, the lights go on and off, it turns and strikes, it sounds and tones in the tower, it plays. Music.

https://www.rolfscherler.com/

15.09.21 // 18-20h // Münsterplatz square

16.09.21 // 18-20h // Münsterplatz square

17.09.21 // 16-20h // Münsterplatz square
18.09.21//12–19// Münsterplatz square
19.09.21//12–19// Münsterplatz square

for ages 8+
languages: German, English
free participation without registration

American puppeteer Anna Paniccia has been making her own puppets for years and has worked for the “Muppets” in New York for a long time. In this walk-in workshop, she shows you how to make your own puppet and shares her best tips with you. You choose between different body and head shapes and materials and let your imagination run wild. Thanks to two sticks you can bring your figure to life and learn from the expert how to do it in the easiest way.

www.annapaniccia.com

Premiere 16.9.21 // 18.00 and 21.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1
17.9.21//18.00 and 21.00 //Kaserne, Rossstall 1
18.9.21 //15.30, 19.00 and 22.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1

Duration: 60 min.
for ages 14+
languages: German, English

Inspired by the philosopher Rosi Braidotti, the performers explore the construct of the Pregnant Posthuman. The Pregnant Posthuman understands nature and technology not as opposites but as a continuum. His pregnancy is technology. Its body is fiction and reality, is animation and image. It is an ultimate, intimate experience of plurality, of possibility and of change. It is an attempt to think being and becoming differently.

Virtual Wombs brings virtual reality into the theatre space and invites the audience on an immersive journey through speculative states. In a techno-intensive setup, the work explores aspects of mutation and transformation and potentials of worldbuilding, the creation of digital, reality-expanding worlds. The piece is a hybrid of a spatial sound environment, a light installation, and a VR trip. The audience is invited into the experience in small groups of 15 people and taken on a tender journey into the womb of the pregnant posthuman by physical and virtual performers.

Concept, content, artistic direction: Anna Fries

Concept, sound installation, composition: Malu Peeters

Technical Artist, Dramaturgy: Ambrus Ivanyos

Light installation: Eva G. Alonso

Production management D: Sina Kießling

Production management CH: ProduktionsDOCK

Performance: N.N.

Production: Hairygaze

Co-production: Kaserne Basel, HAU Hebbel am Ufer

17.9.21 // from 19.30 // Basler Marionetten Theater. Part of the Evening of Short plays.
The location is only barrier-free to a limited extent, detailed information is available here.

duration: 20 min.
for ages 14+
language: simple English
trailer

Throughout life, we have to make choices all the time. Again and again we have to choose from an infinite, thankless abundance of offers and possibilities. And live with our decision. How do we deal with this fact? How do we react to the decisions of others and what do we actually expect from them – and from ourselves? Are we in control of our own reactions or do we let ourselves be guided by feelings? How can we play with the absurdity of the binary division into “right” and “wrong” reactions and when does this become our undoing?

In this game of life, the cartoon character Eve shimmies from decision to decision according to the “trial-and-error” principle. Through oversized two-dimensional masks, Jule Lotte Bröcker transforms into Eve, who is relentlessly pushed around by the instructions of a disembodied voice (Isabel Schmier).

Idea: Jule Lotte Bröcker, Isabel Schmier

Performance: Jule Lotte Bröcker

Voice: Isabel Schmier

www.thisisjulelotte.wordpress.com

17.9.21 // from 19.30 // Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft. Part of the Evening of Short plays.

duration: 25 min.
for ages 10+
without words

What´s That? Is it me? Is it you? Is this real? Or just a joke? It´s time we open the box! Please close it. I´m scared.

A bearded weird guy with long hair is sitting there in a bathrobe. With a box in his hands. A lonely oddball trying to make contact with himself and the world. In his solo piece, Ariel Doron takes another step towards minimalism. Completely without words, music or lighting effects, he tells a funny, touching and at the same time eerie story. With a box as the only prop. That is enough for him to fascinate the audience and draw them into his world.

Concept and performance: Ariel Doron

Dramaturgy: Tobias Tönjes

Artistic advice: Shahar Marom, Florian Feisel, Roni Nelken Mosenson

Coproduction: Figure Theatre Festival Erlangen Nuremberg Fürth; Hanut 31 Theatre Gallery, Tel Aviv; FITZ! Figure Theatre Centre, Stuttgart

www.arieldoron.com

17.9.21// from 19.30 // Münsterplatz. Part of the Evening of Short plays.
18.9.21//16.00 & 18.00 // Münsterplatz

duration: 20 min.
for ages 5+
without words

Two musicians sitting back-to-back: one is a real musician and the other is a fake. One is holding his stringed instrument, a ronroco. The second has a drum, a cymbal and spoons on his knees. One of them is an impostor, faking the other… But who is who?

In a turning set-up offering a 180°-degree vision the two alter egos try to bring about an impossible encounter. They chase each other, evade and tease each other until they finally lose each other and merge in a circular dance. Santiago Moreno plays – between original and copy, reality and illusion – a fake milonga with real Russian spoons. A feast for the eyes and ears!

By and with Santiago Moreno

Outside Eye: Delphine Bardot and Juan Perez Escala

Artistic collaboration: Benoit Dattez

Co-production: Le Sablier, National Puppet Center in Preparation, Ifs and Dives-sur-Mer; Le Carreau, National Theatre of Forbach and Est Mosellan; Le Mémô,Aartistic Factory, Nancy

www.cielamuette.com

17.9.21 // from 19:30h // Zum Isaak, Kellertheater. Part of the Evening of Short plays.
The location is only barrier-free to a limited extent, detailed information is available here.

duration: 15 min.
for ages 14+
without words

What if there was just one small step separating the “becoming-animal” of the male from his “becoming-female”? What distinguishes the human male from the other animals? He is the only one who dresses up his body in clothes and disguises his sexuality as gallantry. What happens when the male and female bodies are reduced to their essentials and the rules of seduction are suspended?

A hairy man, three little pigs, a handful of flowers and an ageing cabaret star share the stage in an explosion of red fur. At once tender and comical, poetic and disturbing, this mute solo piece by Delphine Bardot also explores the harsh realities of the female body, by turns embellished, time-worn, brutalised and colonised.

By and with: Delphine Bardot
Performance consultant and music creation: Santiago Moreno

Co-Production: L.E.M., Puppets Experimentation Laboratory of Nancy

www.cielamuette.com

Premiere 16.9.21 // 18.00 and 21.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1
17.9.21//18.00 and 21.00 //Kaserne, Rossstall 1
18.9.21 //15.30, 19.00 and 22.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1

Duration: 60 min.
for ages 14+
languages: German, English
 

Inspired by the philosopher Rosi Braidotti, the performers explore the construct of the Pregnant Posthuman. The Pregnant Posthuman understands nature and technology not as opposites but as a continuum. His pregnancy is technology. Its body is fiction and reality, is animation and image. It is an ultimate, intimate experience of plurality, of possibility and of change. It is an attempt to think being and becoming differently.

Virtual Wombs brings virtual reality into the theatre space and invites the audience on an immersive journey through speculative states. In a techno-intensive setup, the work explores aspects of mutation and transformation and potentials of worldbuilding, the creation of digital, reality-expanding worlds. The piece is a hybrid of a spatial sound environment, a light installation, and a VR trip. The audience is invited into the experience in small groups of 15 people and taken on a tender journey into the womb of the pregnant posthuman by physical and virtual performers.

Concept, content, artistic direction: Anna Fries

Concept, sound installation, composition: Malu Peeters

Technical Artist, Dramaturgy: Ambrus Ivanyos

Light installation: Eva G. Alonso

Production management D: Sina Kießling

Production management CH: ProduktionsDOCK

Performance: N.N.

Production: Hairygaze

Co-production: Kaserne Basel, HAU Hebbel am Ufer

15.9.2021 // 18.00 // Münsterplatz square

16.-19.9.2021 // 10.00-19.00 // Münsterplatz square

for all ages
without words
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

It has kitchen utensils, blenders, electric meat knives and bread slicers. Discovered, found, collected. There are serving plates and the first sound. The first module is created from a wide variety of sounds. Sketches connect clinking glass, sounding pots, striking woods and metal rods with drives. Individual independent modules that move within themselves build up into a tower.

Wheels turn, ropes pull, rods strike and push, the most diverse sounds and rhythms mix to form music, the score develops in a logical sequence, everything takes its course, the lights go on and off, it turns and strikes, it sounds and tones in the tower, it plays. Music.

https://www.rolfscherler.com/

18.&19.9.2021 // Museum of Cultures Basel
for all ages
without words
included in the museum entrance fee

*every hour on the hour from 11-15h

Daisy’s ‘flesh suits’ sit in an awkward space between sculpture, performance and art. Through them, she investigates and celebrates the human form. Their tactile fabric bodies and inviting colours exaggerate the warmth and softness of flesh – those elements that signify a living being. They create a huge desire for touch and at the same time these expansive bodies are intimidating.

For the first time ever, Burt and Hillary mingle with the audience and provoke an encounter with all the senses. The flesh figures experience the whole spectrum of human emotions and hold up the mirror to the audience in a refreshing, exhilarating way.

Concept: Daisy Collingridge

Performance: Daisy Collingridge und Isabel Garret

www.daisycollingridge.com

15.09.21 // 18-20 // Münsterplatz square

16.09.21 // 18-20h // Münsterplatz square

17.09.21 // 16-20h // Münsterplatz square
18.09.21//12-19h // Münsterplatz square
19.09.21//12-19h // Münsterplatz square

for ages 8+
languages: German, English
free participation without registration

American puppeteer Anna Paniccia has been making her own puppets for years and has worked for the “Muppets” in New York for a long time. In this walk-in workshop, she shows you how to make your own puppet and shares her best tips with you. You choose between different body and head shapes and materials and let your imagination run wild. Thanks to two sticks you can bring your figure to life and learn from the expert how to do it in the easiest way.

www.annapaniccia.com

Free participation without registration, free of charge

BAFF! invites to networking and exchange. Local, national and international artists as well as interested visitors have the opportunity to talk about their work, their visions and possible synergies in an informal setting.

18.9.21 // 13.00, 15.30, 17.15 // Münsterplatz

19.9.21 //13.00, 14.00, 17.30 // Münsterplatz

duration: 20 min.
language: little spoken language, French
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

TOPICALITIES

Whether they are from yesterday or today: News always have the same taste, the same sweetness and the same cruelty. Yet they deal with very different topics: Fashion, working more for… (yes, for what actually?), sex tourism, murders, strangers, a topsy-turvy world… and end in one great love story.

In their old radio boxes, two journalists present the audience with news on a wide variety of topics. With the help of their puppets, Bettina Vielhaber and Sarah Tapenot report from the world of the media without words – but with all the more physical effort and charm. A touching performance with tender and biting humour and a lot of retro nostalgia.

Idea and concept : Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Echelle

Dramaturgy: Denis Athimon ( Bob Théâtre)

Acting : Bettina Vielhaber, Alain Richet

Puppets, set : Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Échelle

Music: Martin Béziers

Sound: Les Ateliers Denino

Co-production: Théâtre Illico

www.compagniedelechelle.com

18.9.21 // 14.00 // Münsterplatz
19.9.21 // 15.00 // Münsterplatz

duration per performance: 5-15 min.

duration Open Stage: approx. 60 min.

language: free to choose

registration: organisation@figurentheaterfestival.ch, subject “Open Stage”

BAFF! invites you to its stage: present your own performance with a free choice of theme to Basel’s greatest audience. Whether you’re a pro or a greenhorn, everyone will be celebrated on Münsterplatz. Register in advance by e-mail or drop by spontaneously. You can sign up for one of the free stage times in our info bus on Münsterplatz.

18.9.21 // 13.00, 15.30, 17.15 // Münsterplatz

19.9.21 // 13.00, 14.00, 17.30 // Münsterplatz

duration: 20 min.
language: little spoken language, French
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

TOPICALITIES

Whether they are from yesterday or today: News always have the same taste, the same sweetness and the same cruelty. Yet they deal with very different topics: Fashion, working more for… (yes, for what actually?), sex tourism, murders, strangers, a topsy-turvy world… and end in one great love story.

In their old radio boxes, two journalists present the audience with news on a wide variety of topics. With the help of their puppets, Bettina Vielhaber and Sarah Tapenot report from the world of the media without words – but with all the more physical effort and charm. A touching performance with tender and biting humour and a lot of retro nostalgia.

Idea and concept : Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Echelle

Dramaturgy: Denis Athimon ( Bob Théâtre)

Acting : Bettina Vielhaber, Alain Richet

Puppets, set : Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Échelle

Music: Martin Béziers

Sound: Les Ateliers Denino

Co-production: Théâtre Illico

www.compagniedelechelle.com

Premiere 16.9.21 // 18.00 and 21.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1
17.9.21//18.00 and 21.00 //Kaserne, Rossstall 1
18.9.21 //15.30, 19.00 and 22.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1

Duration: 60 min.
for ages 14+
languages: German, English

***Tickets on sale from 3 August 2021***

Inspired by the philosopher Rosi Braidotti, the performers explore the construct of the Pregnant Posthuman. The Pregnant Posthuman understands nature and technology not as opposites but as a continuum. His pregnancy is technology. Its body is fiction and reality, is animation and image. It is an ultimate, intimate experience of plurality, of possibility and of change. It is an attempt to think being and becoming differently.

Virtual Wombs brings virtual reality into the theatre space and invites the audience on an immersive journey through speculative states. In a techno-intensive setup, the work explores aspects of mutation and transformation and potentials of worldbuilding, the creation of digital, reality-expanding worlds. The piece is a hybrid of a spatial sound environment, a light installation, and a VR trip. The audience is invited into the experience in small groups of 15 people and taken on a tender journey into the womb of the pregnant posthuman by physical and virtual performers.

Concept, content, artistic direction: Anna Fries

Concept, sound installation, composition: Malu Peeters

Technical Artist, Dramaturgy: Ambrus Ivanyos

Light installation: Eva G. Alonso

Production management D: Sina Kießling

Production management CH: ProduktionsDOCK

Performance: N.N.

Production: Hairygaze

Co-production: Kaserne Basel, HAU Hebbel am Ufer

18.9.21 // 15.30 & 19.00 // Vorstadttheater Basel
duration: 50 min.
for ages 8+
language: little spoken language, German

ERSATZ

What does the future hold for us? What will the human body look like in eras to come? Will it be upgraded with technology and thus improved? Will our descendants enhance their intellectual, physical or psychological abilities with electronic aids and hence become superhumans? Will cyborgs, robots and humans live side by side in future societies? Will they meet in a real or a virtual world?

In his enjoyable yet disturbing performance, Julien Mellano takes the audience on a strange journey of exploration. In a wild ride, they travel together with the wordless performer through a disturbing world in which the future is already present. An adventure that triggers fascination and fear in equal measure.

Concept and realisation: Julien Mellano

Outside Eye: Étienne Manceau

Lighting: Sébastien Thomas

Sound: Gildas Gaboriau

Music: Olivier Mellano, Mauricio Kagel

Director and stage manager: Sébastien Thomas, Gildas Gaboriau or Denis Malard

www.aieaieaie.fr

17.9.21// from 19.30 // Münsterplatz. Part of the Evening of Short plays.
18.9.21//16.00 & 18.00 // Münsterplatz

duration: 20 min.
for ages 5+
without words

free entry without registration, pay as you wish

Two musicians sitting back-to-back: one is a real musician and the other is a fake. One is holding his stringed instrument, a ronroco. The second has a drum, a cymbal and spoons on his knees. One of them is an impostor, faking the other… But who is who?

In a turning set-up offering a 180°-degree vision the two alter egos try to bring about an impossible encounter. They chase each other, evade and tease each other until they finally lose each other and merge in a circular dance. Santiago Moreno plays – between original and copy, reality and illusion – a fake milonga with real Russian spoons. A feast for the eyes and ears!

By and with Santiago Moreno

Outside Eye: Delphine Bardot and Juan Perez Escala

Artistic collaboration: Benoit Dattez

Co-production: Le Sablier, National Puppet Center in Preparation, Ifs and Dives-sur-Mer; Le Carreau, National Theatre of Forbach and Est Mosellan; Le Mémô,Aartistic Factory, Nancy

www.cielamuette.com

18.9.21 // 17.00 // Kaserne, Reithalle

duration: 45 min.
for ages 14+
language: English with German surtitles
tickets: www.kaserne-basel.ch

What does presence mean in times when we have to keep our distance, and are there with new technologies, while we have to stay here? This increasingly virtual reality is changing human consciousness and perception, says Hong Kong multimedia artist Royce Ng. He speaks of “phantom presence”, a being-there that is like having amputated limbs. In his performances Kishi the Vampire and Queen Zomia, Royce Ng has already demonstrated his virtuoso use of the latest technologies in the creation of virtual worlds.

While he has previously acted on stage himself, he goes a step further in Presence, his latest piece: physically based in Hong Kong, he speaks and acts in the performances by proxy through a performer whom he “inhabits”. During the three-part performance, the media used become increasingly disrupted; the objects and technologies used come to the fore. The avatar on stage begins to disappear and gradually dissolves into an immersive environment. Only a point of light remains and the uncertain question: Is this here and now? (Text: Zurich Theater Spektakel)

Text & direction: Royce Ng

Local performers (Basel): tba

Remote performers: Royce Ng

Stage & lighting design: Michele Piazzi

Sound design: John Bartley

Animation: Zheng Mahler Studio

Technical direction: Michele Piazzi

Production management: Stéphane Noël

Surtitles: Dora Kapusta / subtext.me                                                                                                                

Production: Royce Ng & Materialise (Hong Kong)

Co-production: Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Kampnagel (Hamburg), Ob/Scene Festival (Seoul), Taipei Performing Arts Center, Kaserne (Basel)

 https://materialise.io

18.9.21 // 13.00, 15.30, 17.15 // Münsterplatz

19.9.21 // 13.00, 14.00, 17.30 // Münsterplatz

duration: 20 min.
language: little spoken language, French
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

TOPICALITIES

Whether they are from yesterday or today: News always have the same taste, the same sweetness and the same cruelty. Yet they deal with very different topics: Fashion, working more for… (yes, for what actually?), sex tourism, murders, strangers, a topsy-turvy world… and end in one great love story.

In their old radio boxes, two journalists present the audience with news on a wide variety of topics. With the help of their puppets, Bettina Vielhaber and Sarah Tapenot report from the world of the media without words – but with all the more physical effort and charm. A touching performance with tender and biting humour and a lot of retro nostalgia.

Idea and concept : Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Echelle

Dramaturgy: Denis Athimon ( Bob Théâtre)

Acting: Bettina Vielhaber, Alain Richet

Puppets, set: Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Échelle

Music: Martin Béziers

Sound: Les Ateliers Denino

Co-production: Théâtre Illico

www.compagniedelechelle.com

17.9.21// from 19.30 // Münsterplatz. Part of the Evening of Short plays.
18.9.21//16.00 & 18.00 // Münsterplatz

duration: 20 min.
for ages 5+
without words

Two musicians sitting back-to-back: one is a real musician and the other is a fake. One is holding his stringed instrument, a ronroco. The second has a drum, a cymbal and spoons on his knees. One of them is an impostor, faking the other… But who is who?

In a turning set-up offering a 180°-degree vision the two alter egos try to bring about an impossible encounter. They chase each other, evade and tease each other until they finally lose each other and merge in a circular dance. Santiago Moreno plays – between original and copy, reality and illusion – a fake milonga with real Russian spoons. A feast for the eyes and ears!

By and with Santiago Moreno

Outside Eye: Delphine Bardot and Juan Perez Escala

Artistic collaboration: Benoit Dattez

Co-production: Le Sablier, National Puppet Center in Preparation, Ifs and Dives-sur-Mer; Le Carreau, National Theatre of Forbach and Est Mosellan; Le Mémô,Aartistic Factory, Nancy

www.cielamuette.com

Premiere 16.9.21 // 18.00 and 21.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1
17.9.21//18.00 and 21.00 //Kaserne, Rossstall 1
18.9.21 //15.30, 19.00 and 22.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1

Duration: 60 min.
for ages 14+
languages: German, English

Inspired by the philosopher Rosi Braidotti, the performers explore the construct of the Pregnant Posthuman. The Pregnant Posthuman understands nature and technology not as opposites but as a continuum. His pregnancy is technology. Its body is fiction and reality, is animation and image. It is an ultimate, intimate experience of plurality, of possibility and of change. It is an attempt to think being and becoming differently.

Virtual Wombs brings virtual reality into the theatre space and invites the audience on an immersive journey through speculative states. In a techno-intensive setup, the work explores aspects of mutation and transformation and potentials of worldbuilding, the creation of digital, reality-expanding worlds. The piece is a hybrid of a spatial sound environment, a light installation, and a VR trip. The audience is invited into the experience in small groups of 15 people and taken on a tender journey into the womb of the pregnant posthuman by physical and virtual performers.

Concept, content, artistic direction: Anna Fries

Concept, sound installation, composition: Malu Peeters

Technical Artist, Dramaturgy: Ambrus Ivanyos

Light installation: Eva G. Alonso

Production management D: Sina Kießling

Production management CH: ProduktionsDOCK

Performance: N.N.

Production: Hairygaze

Co-production: Kaserne Basel, HAU Hebbel am Ufer

18.9.21 // 15.30 & 19.00 // Vorstadttheater Basel
duration: 50 min.
for ages 8+
language: little spoken language, German

ERSATZ

What does the future hold for us? What will the human body look like in eras to come? Will it be upgraded with technology and thus improved? Will our descendants enhance their intellectual, physical or psychological abilities with electronic aids and hence become superhumans? Will cyborgs, robots and humans live side by side in future societies? Will they meet in a real or a virtual world?

In his enjoyable yet disturbing performance, Julien Mellano takes the audience on a strange journey of exploration. In a wild ride, they travel together with the wordless performer through a disturbing world in which the future is already present. An adventure that triggers fascination and fear in equal measure.

Concept and realisation: Julien Mellano

Outside Eye: Étienne Manceau

Lighting: Sébastien Thomas

Sound: Gildas Gaboriau

Music: Olivier Mellano, Mauricio Kagel

Director and stage manager: Sébastien Thomas, Gildas Gaboriau or Denis Malard

www.aieaieaie.fr

18.9.21 // 21.00 // ROXY Birsfelden

duration: 50 min.
for ages 14+
language: German

trailer

Life in the age of technology – how has it changed our innermost consciousness? We are becoming more and more controlled by others, leaving the helm to the machines, drugs, sex and biopolitics. What does this do to us? How malleable are our bodies and our selves?

This is a poetic approach to the emotional life of the techno-self – a machine dance theatre and a musical figure theatre in one. A play with opposites and dependencies between hardware and wetware, love and death, machine precision and human emotion. A poem that speaks of the reinvention of nature, electro-cellular circuits, intimate desires, chemical reactions and the technology of the soul.

Direction, concept, lighting, stage: Samuel Hof

Set and costume design: Nina Malotta

Music: Harry Delgas

Figure construction and performance: Antje Töpfer

Performance: Folkert Dücker

Dramaturgy: Antonia Beermann

Technical direction: Robin Burkhardt

Production: Isabelle Gatterburg

PR/Publicity: Kathrin Schäfer (Culture PR)

Graphics: Markus Niessner

Co-production: HochX Theatre, Live Art, Theater der Stadt Aalen

www.o-team-theater.de

Premiere 16.9.21 // 18.00 and 21.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1
17.9.21//18.00 and 21.00 //Kaserne, Rossstall 1
18.9.21 //15.30, 19.00 and 22.00 // Kaserne, Rossstall 1

Duration: 60 min.
for ages 14+
languages: German, English

Inspired by the philosopher Rosi Braidotti, the performers explore the construct of the Pregnant Posthuman. The Pregnant Posthuman understands nature and technology not as opposites but as a continuum. His pregnancy is technology. Its body is fiction and reality, is animation and image. It is an ultimate, intimate experience of plurality, of possibility and of change. It is an attempt to think being and becoming differently.

Virtual Wombs brings virtual reality into the theatre space and invites the audience on an immersive journey through speculative states. In a techno-intensive setup, the work explores aspects of mutation and transformation and potentials of worldbuilding, the creation of digital, reality-expanding worlds. The piece is a hybrid of a spatial sound environment, a light installation, and a VR trip. The audience is invited into the experience in small groups of 15 people and taken on a tender journey into the womb of the pregnant posthuman by physical and virtual performers.

Concept, content, artistic direction: Anna Fries

Concept, sound installation, composition: Malu Peeters

Technical Artist, Dramaturgy: Ambrus Ivanyos

Light installation: Eva G. Alonso

Production management D: Sina Kießling

Production management CH: ProduktionsDOCK

Performance: N.N.

Production: Hairygaze

Co-production: Kaserne Basel, HAU Hebbel am Ufer

18.9.21 // 22.30 // Hirscheneck
Admission 18+
The location is not barrier-free.

Orakle Ngoy is THE female voice of Congolese hip-hop. In her lyrics, she tackles the realities of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo and highlights them especially from the perspective of women. She raps about sexism and gender discrimination and appeals for respect for African women in general and Congolese women in particular. For this evening in Hirschi, she is teaming up with Bernese performer DJ Sarah-Elena Müller aka DJ Natur_E for a musical live act.

Stefanie Oberhoff (DE)

19.09.21 // 10:00 – 17.00 // Festival centre Münsterplatz square

For ages 14+ // German // CHF 100 //

Registration required via Email or +41 77 496 16 20

GREETINGS TO KINSHASA

As the smallest superhero of Kinshasa, the Oracle of Sernf set out to discover the world and collect all the stories that were put aside in the past. Now she has arrived in Basel and, together with Punch Agathe, the mother of all troublemakers, she sings about what is going on in the world on Münsterplatz.

In this workshop, you will discover and try out various large puppet techniques (especially: playing in full body costume, animation of infaltables) with the puppet staff of the Basel performance of PUNCH AGAHTE UND DAS ORAKLE VON SERNF. With these figures we will shoot a musical video message together and send it to all those who stayed at home…

With microbes, molerats, giant joysticks, small and large inflatable money mice, dogs and R4 gone wild, we work out small scenes: The music will be created simultaneously in Kinshasa!

If you feel like it, you are welcome to bring your own instruments.

www.punchagathe.com

15.9.2021 // 18.00 // Münsterplatz square

16.-19.9.2021 // 10.00-19.00 // Münsterplatz square

for all ages
without words
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

It has kitchen utensils, blenders, electric meat knives and bread slicers. Discovered, found, collected. There are serving plates and the first sound. The first module is created from a wide variety of sounds. Sketches connect clinking glass, sounding pots, striking woods and metal rods with drives. Individual independent modules that move within themselves build up into a tower.

Wheels turn, ropes pull, rods strike and push, the most diverse sounds and rhythms mix to form music, the score develops in a logical sequence, everything takes its course, the lights go on and off, it turns and strikes, it sounds and tones in the tower, it plays. Music.

https://www.rolfscherler.com/

18.&19.9.2021 // Museum of Cultures Basel
for all ages
without words
included in the museum entrance fee

*every hour on the hour from 11-15h

Daisy’s ‘flesh suits’ sit in an awkward space between sculpture, performance and art. Through them, she investigates and celebrates the human form. Their tactile fabric bodies and inviting colours exaggerate the warmth and softness of flesh – those elements that signify a living being. They create a huge desire for touch and at the same time these expansive bodies are intimidating.

For the first time ever, Burt and Hillary mingle with the audience and provoke an encounter with all the senses. The flesh figures experience the whole spectrum of human emotions and hold up the mirror to the audience in a refreshing, exhilarating way.

Concept: Daisy Collingridge

Performance: Daisy Collingridge und Isabel Garret

www.daisycollingridge.com

15.09.21 // 18-20h // Münsterplatz square

16.09.21 // 18-20h // Münsterplatz square

17.09.21 // 16-20h // Münsterplatz square
18.09.21//12–19// Münsterplatz square
19.09.21//12–19// Münsterplatz square

for ages 8+
languages: German, English
free participation without registration

American puppeteer Anna Paniccia has been making her own puppets for years and has worked for the “Muppets” in New York for a long time. In this walk-in workshop, she shows you how to make your own puppet and shares her best tips with you. You choose between different body and head shapes and materials and let your imagination run wild. Thanks to two sticks you can bring your figure to life and learn from the expert how to do it in the easiest way.

www.annapaniccia.com

18.9.21 // 13.00, 15.30, 17.15 // Münsterplatz

19.9.21 // 13.00, 14.00, 17.30 // Münsterplatz

duration: 20 min.
language: little spoken language, French
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

TOPICALITIES

Whether they are from yesterday or today: News always have the same taste, the same sweetness and the same cruelty. Yet they deal with very different topics: Fashion, working more for… (yes, for what actually?), sex tourism, murders, strangers, a topsy-turvy world… and end in one great love story.

In their old radio boxes, two journalists present the audience with news on a wide variety of topics. With the help of their puppets, Bettina Vielhaber and Sarah Tapenot report from the world of the media without words – but with all the more physical effort and charm. A touching performance with tender and biting humour and a lot of retro nostalgia.

Idea and concept : Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Echelle

Dramaturgy: Denis Athimon ( Bob Théâtre)

Acting : Bettina Vielhaber, Alain Richet

Puppets, set : Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Échelle

Music: Martin Béziers

Sound: Les Ateliers Denino

Co-production: Théâtre Illico

www.compagniedelechelle.com

18.9.21 // 13.00, 15.30, 17.15 // Münsterplatz

19.9.21 //13.00,  14.00, 17.30 // Münsterplatz

duration: 20 min.
language: little spoken language, French
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

TOPICALITIES

Whether they are from yesterday or today: News always have the same taste, the same sweetness and the same cruelty. Yet they deal with very different topics: Fashion, working more for… (yes, for what actually?), sex tourism, murders, strangers, a topsy-turvy world… and end in one great love story.

In their old radio boxes, two journalists present the audience with news on a wide variety of topics. With the help of their puppets, Bettina Vielhaber and Sarah Tapenot report from the world of the media without words – but with all the more physical effort and charm. A touching performance with tender and biting humour and a lot of retro nostalgia.

Idea and concept : Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Echelle

Dramaturgy: Denis Athimon ( Bob Théâtre)

Acting : Bettina Vielhaber, Alain Richet

Puppets, set : Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Échelle

Music: Martin Béziers

Sound: Les Ateliers Denino

Co-production: Théâtre Illico

www.compagniedelechelle.com

19.9.21 // 14.00 // Vorstadttheater Basel

duration: 50 min.

for ages 3+
language: without words

trailer

WHY NOT!
What can mum do that dad can’t? What if dad does things that in other families mum does? Why shouldn’t it be the fathers who give birth to children, breastfeed them, change their nappies and look after them as they take their first steps in life? Why shouldn’t a little boy wear a red dress with ruffles rather than blue shorts and a sailor suit? And play with a miniature dredger instead of a football?

Without words, but with sounds and music, Pierre Decuypere as Papa/Mama Clown questions gender stereotypes. He takes the audience with him into his everyday life and lets them experience the endless tenderness, the turbulent complicity and the abstruse confrontations that characterise his relationship with his son.

By Alain Moreau

Puppets, set, staging: Alain Moreau

Performance: Pierre Decuypere

Director: Céline Dumont

Assistant stage design: Sandrine Hooge

Artistic accompaniment: Xavier Bouvier and Benoit Devos (OkidoK), Sandrine Hooge, Gilbert Epron, Laura Durnez, François Pilon, Pierre Tual

Music: Max Vandervorst

Costumes: Emilie Cottam

Lighting: Sybille Van Bellinghen

Direction: Sybille Van Bellinghen or Sandrine Hooge

Interns: Léopold Terlinden, Jeanne Decuypere and Céline Dumont

Set design: François Geeraerd, Genevieve Périat, Alice Carpentier

Graphics: Mélanie Rutten

Marketing: Kurieuze & Cies – My-Linh Bui

Co-production: Centres Scéniques de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles; Mars – Mons arts de la scène; Théâtre de Liège; Théâtre de Namur; Atelier Théâtre Jean Vilar, Louvain La Neuve; Rotondes, Luxembourg; Pierre de Lune, Centre dramatique jeunes publics de Bruxelles; Scène nationale du Sud-Aquitain; Centre Culturel du Brabant wallon

www.toftheatre.be

18.9.21 // 14.00 // Münsterplatz
19.9.21 // 15.00 // Münsterplatz

duration per performance: 5-15 min.

duration Open Stage: approx. 60 min.

language: free to choose

registration: organisation@figurentheaterfestival.ch, subject “Open Stage”

BAFF! invites you to its stage: present your own performance with a free choice of theme to Basel’s greatest audience. Whether you’re a pro or a greenhorn, everyone will be celebrated on Münsterplatz. Register in advance by e-mail or drop by spontaneously. You can sign up for one of the free stage times in our info bus on Münsterplatz.

19.9.21// 16.00 // Theater Palazzo Liestal

duration: 60 min.
for ages 5+
language: German

Two people, a man and a woman, draw on a projection surface. As soon as a line or a dot is drawn, the drawing comes to life. A stick figure has been created. Or is it a female stick figure? Does a figurine have a gender, but which one? The little figure wants to get to know itself and the world. The two adults accompany it and get quite sweaty: A child must have a name, but what is it? What is the colour of the child’s room? What clothes should it wear? What toys does it want to play with?

This play playfully embarks on a search for identity and clashes with the gender roles that our society has created. Brigitta Weber and Julius Griesenberg slip into the various roles of caregivers who accompany the exploring child on its journey through life and confront it with their wishes and ideas.

Performance: Julius Griesenberg, Brigitta Weber

Idea & concept: Antonia Brix, Julius Griesenberg, Sibylle Heiniger, Brigitta Weber

Staging: Antonia Brix

Dramaturgy & text: Sibylle Heiniger

Set design: Renate Wünsch

Illustration & Animation: Jeannette Besmer

Music composition: Resli Burri

Lighting design & technics: Tashi-Yves Tobler

Photos: Yoshiko Kusano

Production Manager: Gabi Bernetta

Production: Theater Jungfrau & Co. Bern, Theater Blau Zurich, Bernetta Theatre Productions

Co-production: Schlachthaus Theatre Bern

www.theaterblau.ch

18.9.21 // 13.00, 15.30, 17.15 // Münsterplatz

19.9.21 // 13.00, 14.00, 17.30 // Münsterplatz

duration: 20 min.
language: little spoken language, French
free entry, PWYW (pay what you want)

TOPICALITIES

Whether they are from yesterday or today: News always have the same taste, the same sweetness and the same cruelty. Yet they deal with very different topics: Fashion, working more for… (yes, for what actually?), sex tourism, murders, strangers, a topsy-turvy world… and end in one great love story.

In their old radio boxes, two journalists present the audience with news on a wide variety of topics. With the help of their puppets, Bettina Vielhaber and Sarah Tapenot report from the world of the media without words – but with all the more physical effort and charm. A touching performance with tender and biting humour and a lot of retro nostalgia.

Idea and concept : Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Echelle

Dramaturgy: Denis Athimon ( Bob Théâtre)

Acting : Bettina Vielhaber, Alain Richet

Puppets, set : Les Ateliers Denino et la Compagnie de l’Échelle

Music: Martin Béziers

Sound: Les Ateliers Denino

Co-production: Théâtre Illico

www.compagniedelechelle.com

19.9.21 // 19.00 // Basler Marionetten Theater
The location is only barrier-free to a limited extent, detailed information is available here.

duration: 70 min.
for ages 12+
languages: Hebrew, English, with German surtitles

trailer

Embarrassment is a primal human emotion. And one that we have trouble hiding. It arises when we lose control, when the effort to hide one thing reveals another, when our bodies betray us and reflect our feelings. Embarrassment flourishes in the gap between what I think of myself and what I think others think of me and what they actually think.

In their innocent study of bodily embarrassment, Gony Paz and Yusef Sweid explore the phenomenon of blushing. Animating their naked puppets, they reveal the tiny nuances of human movement and emotion. Together they blush as they fail time and again to hide behind their puppets, embracing their shame as they have discovered that sincerity, humanity and vulnerability touch hearts.

By and with Gony Paz

Co-creation, Performance: Yousef Sweid

Co-creation, dramaturgy, lighting: Yair Segal

Music, Sound: Faye Shapiro

Bass: Ziv Grinberg

Puppets, set: Gony Paz

Visual advice: Rotem Blum

“We Blush” was a guest at BAFF! 2019 as a tryout piece. BAFF! is delighted that Gony Paz has returned to Basel with her finished work.

https://exposure.dramaisrael.org/we-blush/