


© Henrich Brinkmöller-Becker
No President
A Story Ballet of Enlightenment in Two Immoral Acts
Mikey, a failed actor, works for a small but successful security firm. He has one task, and he is convinced of its importance: he has to guard a theatre curtain and, along with that, everything that might be concealed behind it. At first, the job seems to be simple and fulfilling, but soon Mikey and the whole situation spin further and further out of control. No President. A Story Ballet of Enlightment in Two Immoral Acts by the Nature Theater of Oklahoma is a rousing evening of theatre which avails itself of the ballet form – a dance genre which was declared an art form by, of all people, Louis XIV, the Sun King, and is therefore closely connected with belief in power. At the same time, the performance unreservedly borrows from silent film, slapstick and dance, accompanied – true to its style – by the music of the Nutcracker. No President. A Story Ballet of Enlightment in Two Immoral Acts is an interminable, venomous and simultaneously hilarious farewell to so-called Western values and to a society that shamelessly celebrates its assumed superiority.
CREDITS
Text, direction & choreography
Kelly Copper, Pavol Liška
With
Ilan Bachrach
Tale Dolven
Gabel Eiben
Laron Janus
Raymond Liew Jin Pin
Robert M. Johanson
Joana Kern
Hannah Krebs
Marlena Meier
Bence Mezei, Kadence Neill
Gustavo de Oliveira Leite
Anna Schneider
Philip Wiehagen
Dramaturgy
Florian Malzacher
Set
Ansgar Prüwer
Costume
Jenny Theisen
Light Design
Maarten Warmerdam
Light
Luka Curk
Sound
Torsten Schwarzbach
Assistance set and costume
Gabi Bartels
Translation
Ulrich Blumenbach
Operating surtitles
Jakob Gerber (Panthea)
Production (creation)
Ruhrtriennale & Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Production (restaging)
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Touring
Something Great
Funded by the City of Munich Department Arts and Culture.