Transnational comedy by Julie Paucker and Robert Schuster
| Direction | Robert Schuster |
| Dramaturgy and text | Julie Paucker |
| Stage and costumes | Eva-Maria Van Acker |
| Sound design | Max Bauer |
| Artistic collaboration | Martin Gruber |
| With | Hadar Dimand, Matthias Hejnar, Marcus Horn, Céline Martin-Sisteron, Abdul Mahfoz Nejrabi, Justyna Pawlicka, Jonas Schlagowsky, Romaric Séguin, Sulaiman Sohrab Salem |
EUROPÉ - A National Assembly is inspired by the spirit of Dziady, a Polish ritual during which food is prepared for the deceased. One hundred years after the Treaty of Versailles and the resulting national assemblies in Weimar and Warsaw, the polyphonic spirits of European democracy, 1919, are channeled and cooked into a feast. In a theatrical assembly between past and present, between reality and fiction, between criticism and utopia, their unfulfilled dreams and unanswered questions are brought to the fore.
Performances Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (GER), Les Plateaux Sauvages - Paris (FR), Theater Chur (CH), Akademie der Künste - Berlin (GER).
Production Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (GER), KULA Compagnie
Coproduction Akademie der Künste - Berlin (GER), Les Plateaux Sauvages - Paris (FR), AZA Niza Maza (FR), Stadttheater Chur (CH), AZDAR Theatre (AF)
Supported by Staatskanzlei Thüringen (GER), Goethe-Institut (GER), Institut Français - Erfurt (GER).
[...] during the conversation it became clear how the KULA company, apart from fusion cooking, aims at fusion acting, in which everyone learns from each other [...] brings together different forms of behavior as well as diverse theater aesthetics. All without leveling them out. The KULA company takes the theatrical bull by the horns [...]
REPUBLIK.ch, 06.11.2019, Barbara Villiger Heilig