Rimini Protokoll Performance Prometheus in Athen
Rimini Protokoll’s Performance Prometheus in Athens

Rimini Protokoll’s Performance Prometheus in Athens

Summary/Abstract: The three author-directors Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel explore under the label Rimini Protokoll a theatre of non professional performers, so called “experts”, who present their own live stories, generating in this way a kind of new wave of documentary theatre. The aim is to bring real life to the stage, so that the role gives the performers the opportunity to act the present in the present. The performative act blows the borders between reality and fiction, between staging and everyday life underlining the live-character of the event. The performance based on Prometheus Bound after Aeschylus, presented in Athens at the festival 2010, demonstrates that theatre can be a forum for social-political discussions, this time the main item being the Greek crisis.

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