THEOREM project.
It united, around a script written by Goran Stefanovski, eight artists from the Baltic to the Balkans and 24 actors of nine different nationalities.
This many-faceted walking show juxtaposes human and political situations, cultures, artistic forms and visions: Eastern Europe as it is after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the wars in the Balkans, and how it sees itself.
Hotel Europa is not a high-class hotel and its clientele is not well-heeled and confident. In its shabby rooms, the clients emanate poverty, embarrassment, persecution, envy, expectation, revolt, separation, but also desire, hope and humour... They, men and women, have come from countries in Eastern Europe. They are passing through the West, in transit as Europeans but who are excluded from a wealthy Europe. The spectators enter this hotel in small groups. Each group is led by the staff who speak French, and, along corridors and up and down staircases, takes them to seven rooms. In each room the specific tale of peopled coming from a different Eastern European country. By the end of the evening, the protagonists share a common destiny.Hotel Europa sums up the whole
Distribution
choreography Matjaz Faric
stage direction Piotr Cieplak, Nedyalko Delchev, Viesturs Kairiss, Dritëro Kasapi, Oskaras Korsunovas, Ivan Popovski
script : Goran Stefanovski
set designer : Sören Brunes
artistic coordinator : Chris Torch
directors : Piotr Cieplak, Nedyalko Delchev, Viesturs Kairiss, Dritëro Kasapi, Oskaras Korsunovas, Ivan Popovski
choreographer : Matjaz Faric
and : SKART group
cast : Bostjan Antoncic, Maija Apine, Grzegorz Artman, Ivan Barnev, Algirdas Dainavicius, Vesta Rasa Grabstaite, Natalija Grebneva, Joanna Kasperek, Katja Kosi, Emil Markov, Albena Pavlova, Andrei Merzlikine, Bajrush Mjaku, Arta Mucaj, Ouliana Saranchouk, Kjara Staric, Andis Strods, Vyara Tabakova and for the Avignon Festival performances Ana Abril, Michèle Dorlhac Dominique Laidet, Sophie Mangin, Thierry Otin, Roland Pichaud-Lafontaine director Jean-François Matignon
technical director : Alicia Hall
stage designers : Leva Jurjane, Krste S. Jidrov, Vladimir Maksimov, Jurate Paulekaite, Irena Pivka
Production
production : Intercult (Suède)
en coproduction avec : le Wiener Festwochen (Autriche), la Biennale de Bonn (Allemagne), le Festival d'Avignon, Bologna 2000-ville européenne de la Culture (Italie)
avec le soutien de : la Commission européenne, de THEOREM et du Svenska Institutet (Suède)
en partenariat avec : Cankarjev Dom (Slovénie), Nouvel Institut du Théâtre (Lettonie), Oskaro Korsunovo Teatras (Lituanie), Multimédia/Parc (Macédoine), Centre pour la jeune création (Yougoslavie), Théâtre Studio (Pologne), Ars Libertas (Russie), l'Université américaine (Bulgarie), Rotterdam 2001 (Pays-Bas)
avec le concours des : Cars Lieutaud - Avignon
Le programme De la Baltique aux Balkans est réalisé avec l'aide de : THEOREM, du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, de la Mission pour la Célébration de l'An 2000 en France, de l'Association française d'Action Artistique-ministère des Affaires étrangères et de la Commission européenne.