Alexander Giesche – Visual Poems

A man receives 8.5 million euros and invests the money in reproducing past experiences as precisely as possible. On a circular stage, rooms are built, moved and performed again; a large video surface shows the same events from another perspective. Six performers reconstruct flats, encounters, a bank robbery and the body itself. Based on Tom McCarthy’s novel, the work asks what happens when memory is organised as a technical production. Each repetition is meant to become more accurate. Above all, it becomes more elaborate.

Based on the novel by

Tom McCarthy

By

GIESCHEand

With

Franz Rogowski, Maja Beckmann, Christian Löber, Laszlo Branko Breiding, Max Krause, Anna Katharina Platen

Direction

Alexander Giesche

Set and costumes

Nadia Fistarol

Video

Florian Schaumberger

Lighting

Charlotte Marr

Music

Ludwig Abraham

Dramaturgy

Benjamin von Blomberg

Artistic production management

Hannah Saar

Artistic consultation

Aukje Verhoog

Production photography

Julian Baumann