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Stefan Kaegi

(Rimini Protokoll)

Rimini Protokoll are Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel. The german and swiss theatre sientists are working within and with reality to provoke that it severely mixes up with fiction. They are using the tools of research and fieldwork but somehow the themes turn always out in a strange way. First they worked together on the documentary play "Kreuzworträtsel Boxenstopp", with four 80year-old ladies about their medical technologies and biographies of formula-1-pilots. In 2002 they were collaborating with 230 ready-made-performers to copy an entire session of the german Bundestag in> the Festival "Theater der Welt" in Bonn, and were transforming an office in the tenth floor of Hannover into a surveilance audience space. For the Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels, they reconstructed the belgian company Sabena with six of the 14.000 now unemployed after the bankrupcy. In Vienna they staged the representation of Austria abroud with 10 diplomats. In march 2006 they premiere their next work in Schauspielhaus Zürich.

Press Quote:

"If Disneyland exists in order to make the rest of the world seem only more real, then this real world exists in order to be put on stage - this paraphrase of Baudrillard could become the credo of Rimini Protokoll. Rimini Protokoll is the cover name for three city guerrillas who want to change the world, at least temporarily and preferably in secret. They smuggle art, not bombs, into reality and observe the audience as it watches the explosion: it is considered successful if the fine line between "true" and "manipulated" can no longer be discerned." (Renate Klett, DIE ZEIT)

website: www.rimini-protokoll.de

ABSTRACT:

"CALL CUTTA" HAPPENED IN SPRING 2005 IN AND BETWEEN CALCUTTA AND BERLIN. THE PLAY STARTS IN BERLIN THE MOMENT YOUR CELL PHONE IS RINGING. YOU WALK THROUGH THE CITY, THE SHOW IS AT THE PHONE. A VOICE COMES CLOSER. THE VOICE OF THE INDIAN CALL-CENTRE-OPERATOR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LINE. THE TWO OF YOU ARE TRANSCONTINENTAL PARTNERS FOR THE NEXT 60 MINUTES. HE HAS YOUR MAP AND YOUR DATA. YOU HEAD OFF AS A SPECTATOR, BUT YOU MIGHT BECOME THE USER, THE AGENT, THE HERO OF YOUR PERSONAL SET IN THE CITY.

"This is the most intimate form of theatre that Kolkata has ever witnessed. " (The Statesman)

STAGE 2 OF CALL CUTTA IS PLANNED FOR DIFFERENT CITIES IN 2006.