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100% PERUVIAN-AMAZONIAN HAIR


June 2024
Bochum Theater
Germany

 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.


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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
Stage design
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
Production Teatro de Bochum


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