"KAMP" by Dutch theatre company Hotel Modern reviews the history of a genocide
- from: 03.12.2008
- to: 12.12.2008
- In: Malakoff
agenda
At the Théâtre 71 in Malakoff from December 3rd to 12th, 2008
Practical
http://www.hotelmodern.nl/fr/playk.html
An enormous model of Auschwitz takes up the whole stage. Crowded huts, a railway line, a gate with the slogan "Arbeit macht frei". Hotel Modern tries to imagine the unimaginable, the biggest genocide in history, committed in a specially constructed town.
The model of the camp comes to life on the stage: Thousands of 8cm high hand-made puppets represent the prisoners and their executioners. The actors, like gigantic war correspondents, weave through the model with their hand-held cameras. They film the atrocities for the audience which becomes a first-hand witness.
The Hotel Modern theatre group, founded in 1996 and established in Rotterdam, comprises actors and directors Pauline Kalker and Arlène Hoornweg, and artist Herman Helle.
Hotel Modern's shows combine animation, puppetry, visual arts and music in equal measure. The theme of war is not new to the group. The show De Grote Oorlog (The Great War), about the 1914-1918 war in the trenches, won awards at both a national and international level.
- Updated: 10.12.2008
