from four countries
The project initiated by the Siemens Foundation and the Brussels
Kaaitheater project POWERS OF SPEECH, the public discourse to the
center of new theater works. Texts and productions created in Europe,
South Africa and Colombia and the festival theme "Spoken World" by
25.11. to 10.12.2011 at Kaaitheater shown in Brussels. The subsequent
tour shows the productions in Germany.
When Barack Obama with his world in 2009 transferred "Yes we can"
speeches, the White House by storm, he put the power of speech,
impressively demonstrated in the same year and received the Nobel
Peace Prize. Great speeches change somewhat, since they can be
perceived by society's challenges differently than before. In every
country, every culture, and was in all political systems and the
speech is always a driving force in the political affairs of states
and communities.
The project topics POWERS OF SPEECH examines the formal and
substantial forces that underlie a speech: Forces, a community in war
or peace, may the "good" or "bad" lead. In cooperation with cultural
institutions in four countries, playwrights and directors were invited
to develop new work. This will move you in their own relationship to
public discourse and reflect this in their cultural and political
context. The productions are in Johannesburg, Bogotá, Brussels, Zagreb
and Sheffield.
The idea for this project POWERS OF SPEECH is based on an interview
with Obama's speechwriter Jon Favreau, in which he tells how he had to
design for the presidential elections, two versions of a speech, one
for victory and for defeat. This second version of a speech, which is
rarely known, served as a model for emerging theater works: For the
events that may occur in the near future but may never happen, we must
equip ourselves rhetorically? Or back to the view: how the story would
have been if major speeches would have been held differently? The
project brings the imaginative potential of the theater into view, to
explore the art of speech in the stress field of politics, art and
society anew.
The South African playwright and director Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom,
whose productions about the brutal life of South Africa's most
remarkable and surprising performances from this region are concerned,
in "Rhetorical" detail the recent history of his country. Together
with the author Aubrey Sekhabi he describes the political end of the
intellectual president Thabo Mbeki by the inflammatory speeches a
rebellious young politician: The fictional character of Daniel "Dada"
Mokone based on Julius Malema, the leader of the ANC Youth League, by
some as a ruthless Populist dismissed by many, however, touted as a
future president of South Africa. With the fictitious speeches
Grootboom is a young South African generation the opportunity to
comment on the political history of their country.
The Colombian Pablo Escobar, also known as "El Patron" (the boss), is
next to his declared model Al Capone of the most famous drug lords of
all times and kept his country and the international community over
the years in breathing. From the poor of his native city of Medellín
to a glorified Robin Hood figure, he was for the U.S. in the 1990s,
the "public enemy number one". In 1993 he was shot trying to escape
from prison by a special task force. The performance "un hombre de
Discurso decente" (speech of a decent man) of the Mapa Teatro in
Bogotá is based on a fictional speech, which is found on the day of
his death at Escobar: content on the day of his election as President
of Colombia, describes it in her his vision for a rich and influential
internationally Colombia - by the immediate legalization of all drugs.
In Europe, designed by the British artist and director Tim Etchells
with "Although We Fell Short" a great performative speech, made up of
remnants and fragments of a variety of contemporary and historical
speeches: material from political campaigns, party conventions,
debates, resignation speeches and revolutionary tracts collide
surprising ways to combine or unexpected dialog. Significance and
contexts are thereby subjected to an ordeal - repeatedly made to
dissolve, but the next moment to arise again. Equally funny and
disturbing, subjecting "Although We Fell Short" the well-known
strategies of political speeches a search of their linguistic break
points, if formulaic structures and conventional attitudes must exist
outside of its context. The New Zealander Kate McIntosh, herself a
successful performance artist, is the actress.
"If a man would say openly on a desert island, his mind, he could
still be wrong?" The question is the starting point of the performance
of Giuseppe and Barbara Matijević Chico, a young artist duo from
Zagreb and Paris. Under the working title "SPEECH!" They sought to
challenge our understanding of society, politics and everyday life as
a story. They illuminate the speech as a means of discourse, which
does not claim to truth and therefore less on the content of a speech
than to the addressee is directed. The piece is a speech that invites
us to account, and as its author puts into consciousness.
All productions are shown at the festival "Spoken World" at the
Kaaitheater Brussels, where they are flanked by an extensive program
for the power of language. Speeches by African-American Poetry Slam to
talk without words up that are written by playwrights and Belgian
ministers held ago, the program goes. This shows a young generation of
new-to-find speakers from all parts of the city of Brussels its own
version of "I Have a Dream".
Following are the productions shown its German premiere at PACT
Zollverein in Essen, permits from the Ministry of Family, Children,
Youth, Culture and Sport of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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