Kula – To Europe

After the Paris bombings and the rise of Islamophobic demonstrations in Germany, director Robert Schuster invited theaters on both sides of the Rhine to question European values. When an attack was committed on the Afghan theater group AZDAR in Kabul during a performance, the KULA Compagnie with its German and French players invited these endangered artists to participate in a project that was supposed to celebrate intercultural encounters. The idea was to demonstrate that the coexistence of different cultures, languages and religions (in Europe) could work.

Unfortunately, the entry of the Afghan colleagues was prevented by the German authorities, so that their absence became an integral part of the work. After all, this difficult process also made visible exactly what was happening in Europe: in politics, in society and in ourselves.
The decision not to depart from the initial approach, but to make the absence of the Afghan artists perceptible in the piece, generated a collective force that carried the participants to the next project, this time WITH the Afghan artists.

Production Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (GER), KULA Compagnie, Kunstfest Weimar (GER)

Co-production Theater Freiburg (GER), Schauspielhaus Bochum (GER), Kurtheater Baden (CH), Theater Chur (CH), La Filature, Scène National - Mulhouse (FR), AZA Nizi Mama (FR), AZDAR Theatre (AF)

Supported by JTN - Jeune Théâtre National (FR), Kulturstiftung des Bundes (GER), Freunde des DNT (GER), Flemish Government (BE), Goethe-Institut (GER).