100% PERUVIAN-AMAZONIAN HAIR
June 2024
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Bochum, Germany
Produced by
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Credits:
@FabianRitter (1, 2, 4 to 10)
@JorgBruggemann (3)
@FabianRitter (1, 2, 4 to 10)
@JorgBruggemann (3)
Hair travels a great and global distance until it reaches us as a wig in a shop window. And hidden within that journey are amazing, invisible and entangled stories. It is worth telling the stories of the women who give their hair, of those who process it and of those who wear the hair of women they do not know. Taking the cue from popular magic conceptions of hair as a phantom part of the body, and of how manipulating it can affect the body even miles of distance away: This is a story about entanglements. And it is an entangled form of narrative, and entangled acting experiment. It is about blurred boundaries, and about how bodies are tied into each other, even while these knots are attempted to be erased by a global economic market of hair.
Manuela Infante develops unusual themes for the stage (the raw material oil, the sounds of the street, vampires) and adopts special perspectives - usually a specifically female one. She uncovers the unknown and the astonishing. The Chilean's theatre art lies in her strong texts, which emerge from the spirit of the material (hair) rather than from characters. After Noise. Das Rauschen der Menge, the Schauspielhaus is now inviting the author, musician and director Manuela Infante to stage her work in Bochum for the second time. 100% Peruvian-Amazonian Hair is atmospherically dense theatre, narration and poetry, drama and laboratory.
Credits
Direction
Manuela Infante
Translated
Gianluca Elbert
Dramaturgy
Dorothea Neweling, Camila Valladares Farrú
Cast
William Cooper, Gina Haller, Veronika Nickl, Abenaa Prempeh, Lukas von der Lühe, Jing Xiang
Assistant director
Lynn Dokoohaki
Prompter
Jutta Schneider
Stage Manager
Jonas Kissel
Supertitle Manager
Leonie Mevissen / Gianluca Elbert
Manuela Infante
Translated
Gianluca Elbert
Dramaturgy
Dorothea Neweling, Camila Valladares Farrú
Cast
William Cooper, Gina Haller, Veronika Nickl, Abenaa Prempeh, Lukas von der Lühe, Jing Xiang
Assistant director
Lynn Dokoohaki
Prompter
Jutta Schneider
Stage Manager
Jonas Kissel
Supertitle Manager
Leonie Mevissen / Gianluca Elbert
Stage design
Rocío Hernández Marchant
Costume design
Lara Suppe
Light design
Rocío Hernández Marchant
Sound design
Manuela Infante
Sound engineering
Nikolas Dolle
Rocío Hernández Marchant
Costume design
Lara Suppe
Light design
Rocío Hernández Marchant
Sound design
Manuela Infante
Sound engineering
Nikolas Dolle
Assistant Stage Designer
Anita Ackva
Assistant Costume Designer
Zoe Maria Böck
Anita Ackva
Assistant Costume Designer
Zoe Maria Böck
Production Schauspielhaus Bochum
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