Direction: Inka Charlotte Palm, Minna Partanen
Direction assistance: Maddie Murray, Jo Langdon Stage and costume design: Cécile Marcand Stage and costume assistance: Diana Manah Light design: Katri Kuusimäki Sound design: Jamie Collier Video: Hazal Kara / Jo Langdon |
From and with:
Alejandro Niklison, Anna Fuchs, Corinne Prochaska, Thomas Farr, Andrea Piccoli, Laura Stefanescu, Neele Reimann-Philipp, Hannah McLoughlin, Galina Moiseenkova, Alan Ward, Marina Chekulaeva, Jinzaho Wang. |
"Welcome to “Who wants to be?”, the most confusing and discriminating game show in the world… It is quite simple really." Larry Adult, Tv host. One of the most powerful enemies of current freedom is the belief in a bigger and better future.” Aldous Huxley |
For the second year, and this time only as a stage and costume designer, I had to deal with a team of actors with whom I haven't spend so much time, with whom I didn´t share the privacy of acting workouts and writing decisions. They decided to explore the theme of me me me and society – what does this dialectic we are all caught in mean for me personally? For my daily life? What are the pillars of our postmodern society? Or is it already post-capitalistic?
What leads my work was a strong story line, somehow a twist between a relatively strange fairy tale and a post-modern vision of medias, wealthiness and competition. Two worlds opposing each others, a troop of strugglers looking for a better future and the ruthless reality of dreams falling appart. Of course, such a strong theme and such intense roles where a dream to give free rein to my ideas. Despite the issue of a small budget, collected through a crowd-funding campaign, I achieved to create and organise more than twenty costumes for the cast, and a few stage props to higlight the several circumstances. The main challenge was to create a stage design that would allow the actors to go over from a world to an other, without stealing space from an already small scene. The concept of a side-pannel, equiped with a long zipper and occupied by video projections and lights installation was unanimous, and provided interesting acting opportunities as well as great visual effects. |