In Foyer der Tiere the WeltHütte and the Schauspielhaus become a site of memory. Everyone has left: the theatre is empty. Only three characters – are they still humans? – are left. And with them a fantastic, absurd journey begins through the shadows, currents and echoes of the theatre spaces. We follow a hypnotic prompter who delivers her lines by phone, see a dead pianist playing and watch as two actors try to find the way out. This surreal road movie leads through the bowels of the theatre and out again to a place where architecture no longer provides any identity. Here, something new is created, still vague but stemming from a lust for life: a social utopia after all the drama. These three creatures open up the world anew, without any baggage, free from the struggle for material possessions and individual happiness.
A collective project by the director Judith Skupien with the actors William Cooper and Lukas von der Lühe, the musician Christopher Bruckman, the prompter Sybille Hadulla-Kleinschmidt and the electronic improvisation duo Shathp.
- Foyer der Tiere
- A Film by Judith Skupien, Christopher Bruckman, William Cooper, Lukas von der Lühe
- Idea, concept: Judith Skupien
- With: Christopher Bruckman, William Cooper, Sybille Hadulla-Kleinschmidt, Judith Skupien, Lukas von der Lühe
- Duration: 1:30h
- Premiere: 13.06.2021
- Idea, concept: Judith Skupien
- Idea, concept: Judith Skupien
- Stage design: Oliver Kroll
- Costume design: Tanja Maderner
- Piano: Christopher Bruckman
- Soundtrack: Shathp
(c) Judith Skupien
(c) Birgit Hupfeld
(c) Birgit Hupfeld
