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CREATED AND DIRECTED BY JAKOP AHLBOM
WITH REINIER SCHIMMEL, JAKOP AHLBOM, SILKE HUNDERTMARK, LEONARD LUCIEER, EMPEE HOLWERDA
MUSIC ALAMO RACE TRACK
SET DESIGN DOUWE HIBMA, JAKOP AHLBOM
LIGHT DESIGN YURI SCHREUDERS
TEXT BY BY JUDITH WENDEL
PRODUCTION STICHTING PELS
Project founded
with POR FESR 2007-2013 “La cultura come risorsa”
Italian premiere
Language a performance without words
Running time: 1h 10m
Venue Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Napoli “Pietrarsa” – SALA DEI 500
Dates
16/06/2014 21:30
17/06/2014 20:00
The incredible success of the film The Artist is clear proof that the silent movie is not dead. The Swedish director Jakop Ahlbom brings the magic of silent movies to the theatre stage with his brilliant and moving performance. Lebensraum (in English “vital space”) is inspired by the world of Buster Keaton and slapstick comedy. In the early life of mute cinema, the projections were accompanied by piano music. This performance, however, is accompanied by the Alamo Race Track group: thus, we have an interesting contrast between the visual imagery of 1920s cinema and contemporary rock.
The story is very simple: two men live in a tiny apartment. To overcome the problem of space, the protagonists have invented furniture with double functions: the bed is also a piano, the bookshelf a fridge… but not having a woman in the house, the two decide to create a mechanical puppet which can help them with their household chores. But soon they discover that the puppet is capable of reasoning and expressing opinions. Tensions rise, the room becomes too small and fun breaks out in the audience with a series of irresistible gags!
