Icelandic sagas
by vorschlag:hammer and yuri500
in coproduction with the ROXY Birsfelden,
Culturescapes and the Theater Chur
By and with
Kristofer Gudmundsson,
Gesine Hohmann,
Yves Regenass,
Stephan Stock, Hinrik Þor Svavarsson
stage
Thomas Giger
in collaboration with
Oliver Roth
video mapping
Nathalie Wallrapp
costumes
Kathrin Grossenbacher,
Laura Woodtli
production management
Rabea Grand
photos
Nelly Rodriguez
As part of the Culturescapes Festival, vorschlag:hammer/yuri500 are tackling Iceland's great stories. They use this still popular literary legacy as a puzzle to think about history, historicity and the creation of identity in the Arctic reality. The early medieval narrative formulas serve as a bridge to the present: the piece 'sagafizes' the present and examines how the type of reporting helps create the perception of reality. As in their previous works, vorschlag:hammer/yuri500 focus on the performative narrative and representation possibilities and translate the idiosyncratic narration of the Icelandic sagas into a pictorial theatrical language. In a spectacular stage setting in which the Icelandic natural spectacles are analyzed and performed, constantly changing narrative perspectives chase one another. Seasons are condensed into moments, moments expand into monumental events and carry the audience out of space and time.
Supported by: Dance and Theatre Committee BS/BL, Migros Culture Percentage, Ernst Göhner Foundation and Futurum Foundation
10.-12.11.2015 / 14./15.11.2015
ROXY Birsfelden
21./22.11.2015
Theater Chur
27.11.2015
Südpol, Kriens
9./11.12.2015
Theater Tuchlaube, Aarau
19./20.2.2016
Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany