What traces does a play leave in the memory of the audience? How long does a theater evening linger? Are memories reliable? Does memory change the so-called facts over time? Isn’t the fleetingness of the moment the most precious thing in theater? The performance project “Bei allem Respekt” (With All Due Respect) asks: What does an audience take home with them after a theater evening? The production questions and discusses the relationship between actors and audience, between performance and criticism, between presentation and interpretation. In a mixture of documentary research, performance, and live music, the mechanisms of memory are examined and manipulated in three acts. In a kind of field research, the two actresses Malika Khatir and Fiamma Camesi interviewed different people in German- and French-speaking countries about their theater experiences. The memories varied between attempts to reconstruct the experience correctly and a kind of creative retelling.
The theater artists Malika Khatir and Fiamma Camesi met for the first time in 2006 during the “Est – Ouest” festival and subsequently founded the Compagnie Sündenbock – Bouc émissaire. In September, “Bei allem Respekt” celebrated its Francophone premiere at the théâtre 2.21 in Lausanne and is now coming to Zurich’s Perla-Mode for its German-language premiere.
“Bei allem Respekt” (With all respect)
Director: Fiamma Camesi; Play: Malika Khatir, Fiamma Camesi; Music: Stéphane Blok; Dramaturgy: Iva Sanjek; Text: Sebastien Grosset; Lighting: Sandra Romanelli.
Co-production: Théâtre de l’Arsenic / Théâtre 2.21, Lausanne. The project is supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich, Ville de Lausanne, Migros Kulturprozent, Pro Helvetia, SSA, Ernst-Göhner Stiftung