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Licht

Tea Tupajić / Münchner Kammerspiele
Thu 20.04.2023 - Fri 21.04.2023
20.04.2023
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21.04.2023
  • 20.04.2023
    19:00 - 22:30
    KVS, Brussels
    KVS BOL
    cancelled
  • 21.04.2023
    19:00 - 22:30
    KVS, Brussels
    KVS BOL

In our times, there are few horrors unheard of and unimaginable. The crimes ISIS committed against the Yazidi women in North Iraq are among them. Certain demons, you have to slaughter from within. In Licht, director Tea Tupajić invites the Yazidi women to descend into themselves to try just that.

After a yearlong journey of preparation, the women come on stage to tell the story of what happened, exactly how they remember it. They bleed it out then and never again, part by part, until they can’t anymore. They do so, so that all that happened was not for nothing. With faith in theatre, they leave it with the audience. Every night one part of the story will be told. LICHT lasts until the whole story is told.

For the stage, Tea Tupajić invited all the colleagues of Münchner Kammerspiele to together create a proscenium curtain. On the curtain, they embroidered by hand the stellar constellation of the sky in the night of the premiere. In each star, one person embroidered an image of that what is inside of them, that could have killed them.

'Licht I', 'Licht II' and 'Licht III' will be presented at the Münchner Kammerspiele. A few other parts will be presented internationally, in theatres and festivals led by female artistic directors only. The performance starts at 19 o’clock. It lasts several hours. The end is dependent on the decision of the performers.

Tea Tupajić (Sarajevo, 1984) is a Croatian theatre and film director and writer. She regularly engages in long-term processes where she invites protagonists who either seem too reluctant to go on stage or have a lot to lose by doing so. This lets her explore the potential of art in confrontation with controversial political and personal issues. Licht will be played only a handful of times in a few cities. 

"What is it inside of you that could kill you?"

Extra

  • The duration of the piece is not fixed. The end depends on the decision of the performers.
  • Tea Tupajić will take care of the English simultaneous interpretation herself.
  • Content warning: this performance treats traumatic experiences.

Credits

MET / AVEC / WITH names disclosed during the performance REGIE / MISE EN SCÈNE / DIRECTION Tea Tupajić DRAMATURGIE & ARTISTIEKE ADMINISTRATION / DRAMATURGIE & ADMINISTRATION ARTISTIQUE / DRAMATURGY & ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION Katrina Mäntele DECOR & KOSTUUMS / DÉCOR & COSTUMES / SET DESIGN & COSTUMES Hannah von Eiff, Lisa Chiara Kohler MUZIEK / MUSIQUE / MUSIC Roel Meelkop LICHT / LUMIÈRES / LIGHTING Charlotte Marr DRAMATURGISCH ADVIES / CONSEIL DRAMATURGIQUE / DRAMATURGY ADVISOR Olivia Ebert, Mehdi Moradpour SIMULTAANVERTALING / TRADUCTION SIMULTANÉE / SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION Tea Tupajić REGIE-ASSISTENT/ ASSISTANT·E À LA MISE EN SCÈNE / ASSISTANCE TO THE DIRECTOR Dîlan Z. Çapan ASSISTENT KOSTUUMS / ASSISTANT·E COSTUMES / COSTUME ASSISTANCE Heloá Pizzi Mauro TONEELMEESTER / RÉGISSEUR / STAGE MANAGER Stefanie Rendtorff THERAPEUTISCH & CREATIEF ADVIES ADVIES / CONSEIL THÉRAPEUTIQUE ET CRÉATIF / THERAPEUTIC & CREATIVE ADVICE Rik Vermeulen REFERENTIEPERSONEN PERFORMERS / INTERPRÈTE DE RÉFÉRENCE / REFERENCE PERSON PERFORMERS Leyla Ferman ARTISTIEKE ADMINISTRATIE / ADMINISTRATION ARTISTIQUE / ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION Constantin Weidenbach TECHNISCHE COÖRDINATIE / COORDINATION TECHNIQUE / TECHNICAL COORDINATION Carolin Husemann, Julia Schröder PRODUCTIE / PRODUCTION Münchner Kammerspiele COPRODUCTIE / COPRODUCTION Kaaitheater, the FFT Düsseldorf, the Lucerne Theatre IN HET KADER VAN / DANS LE CADRE DE / IN THE FRAME OF “Female Peace Palace“, a joint project by Münchner Kammerspiele and Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus GEFINANCIERD DOOR / FINANCÉ PAR / FUNDED BY the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media)