How much inequality can a global friendship withstand? One lived on the streets. One was beaten at school. One was tortured. One was a drug addict. One was in prison. Both come from middle-class families. Both have several children. Both act in films. One has a house by the sea. Both are unemployed. One receives government assistance. TWO LIVES. ZWEI LEBEN. subjects the biographies of two actor friends to a test of comparison and tension: Jorge Antonio Arias Cortez was born in May 1985 in Oruro, in the Bolivian Altiplano, and Nicola Fritzen in October 1978 in Berlin. Who achieves which social position with which global starting capital? Who triumphs in the “good life”, who cheats and who falls? Inequality is the explosive of the global system of the coming decades. The demarcations of conflict points and the supposed security guarantees of the West are collapsing in the era of climate change and outdated growth models. TWO LIVES. ZWEI LEBEN. puts into play the artistic experiment of placing the lived experience in a global frame of reference. To this end, the two actors offer their own biography for a sociological case study, with all its extremes, high points and painful details. Can a “global inequality” be read in the lives of Cortez and Fritzen? Did one of the two get the worst luck in the “birth lottery”? To what extent do each of them represent the social system from which they come?
Dos Vidas. Zwei Leben.
KLARA Theaterproduktionen / From 7:30 p.m./ Es Pujolet - Deulosal
KLARA Theatreproduktionen
The theater group KLARA Theaterproduktionen was founded in Basel in 1991 by the director duo Christoph Frick and Jordy Haderek. The current artistic director is Christoph Frick.
KLARA constantly develops its own works without relying on an existing dramatic text. Inspired by visual arts and music, KLARA explores the possibilities of the theatrical medium from its limits: in its initial productions, still in the form of simple stories, which are then tested for their effectiveness and credibility.
KLARA embarks on a search for urban and contemporary narrative styles. Instead of linear plots and consistent characters, multiple plots, simultaneity, character dissolution and the interweaving of multiple narrative levels take center stage.
KLARA reflects on itself as a theatre and constantly considers its possibilities. The pieces are not rooted in classical theatrical conflict, but in the fundamentals of performance: what all the evenings have in common is a choreographed physicality, a comedy of "virtuoso non-virtuosities" and the development of the pieces through improvisational processes. KLARA carries out a stage investigation, allowing narrative(s) to collide with abstraction and vice versa.
To challenge herself, KLARA repeatedly takes the risk of making radical changes in direction. Fundamentally, the aim is to keep the framework of narrative possibilities as open as possible.
In addition to performances at guest theatres and festivals in Switzerland, KLARA has performed internationally at the Impulse Festival, the Bonn Biennale, the Time Festival in Ghent, the Fribourg Theatre Festival, the First International Drama Festival in Lahore (Pakistan) and has co-produced with the Kaserne in Basel, the Theater in Lucerne, the Theater Spektakel in Zurich, the Steirischer Herbst in Graz and the Victoria (now Campo) in Ghent and the Theater in Fribourg with PVC Tanz.
