Afterlives
Performance Digital Culture Theatre & Performance
How can we meet each other to feel connection? And where do we gather to care for and mourn for each other? German-Thai coproduction AFTERLIVES connects audiences in Bangkok and Düsseldorf, and your own smartphone becomes a portal into parallel realities. Equipped with a basic knowledge about the multiverse and the dazzling performers of both collectives, Henrike Iglesias and Miss Theatre, we embark on a search for queer policies of dying and alternative forms of community.
cast
Concept, Costume Design, Dramaturgy, Digital Interaction, Lighting Design, Performance, Production Management, Sound Design, Stage Design, Text: Leo G. Alonso, Henri Maximilian Jakobs, Pathipon (Miss Oat), Thongchai Pimapunsri, Nicha Puranasamriddhi, Marielle Schavan, Sophia Schroth, Rosa Wernecke. Original Concept: Pathipon (Miss Oat), Henrike Iglesias (Leo G. Alonso, Malu Peeters, Marielle Schavan, Sophia Schroth), Anan Fries
Assistant Direction and Dramaturgy: Felix Toni Giesler
Technical Direction, Stage Design Bangkok: Pornpan Arayaveerasid, Rueangrith Suntisuk (DuckUnit)
Stage Management Bangkok: Surat Kaewseekarm
Graphic Design Bangkok: Matus Kaewdum (Cerebrum_art.original)
Coding, Creative Technology: bleeptrack
Stage Tailoring: Amancay Ballesi
Ceramics: Lauriane Daphne Carl
Outside Eye Berlin: María F. Giacaman Hasbún
Production Management Berlin: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Press and Public Relations Berlin: Franziska Janke
Translation: Naomi Boyce
Henrike Iglesias is a Berlin and Basel-based theatre collective that has been working together since 2012. Henrike’s core team consists of Leo G. Alonso, Malu Peeters, Marielle Schavan and Sophia Schroth. Together and in smaller constellations as well as with various collaborators, they develop performances, installations, parties and, when commissioned, many more things. They perceive pop cultural and mass media phenomena as mirrors of societal conditions and grievances and have made it their purpose to illuminate those from feminist perspectives. They like to employ technical means and devices in narrative, interactive and poetical ways in their work, and they are interested in the influence those items have on our everyday lives together.
Miss Oat is a founding member of Miss Theatre. She*her studied communication art. Since study days, there has been a strong fascination with the performative arts, especially so since she*he participated in “Queer Moon”, a lecture project for short drama at Crescent Moon Theater, as a director and actor. Miss is mainly interested in topics like queerness, individuality, politics, and humanity. Using experimental art forms, Miss Oat concentrates on connecting personal stories with the audience’s experiences to criticise Thailand’s authoritarianism.
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A Henrike Iglesias production in coproduction with Sophiensæle, brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf and ROXY Birsfelden. Supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.