UNIDRAM 2025: RUE OBSCURE

Secured terrain
Walk-in installation based on Max Frisch's "Man appears in the Holocene"

A rain room, a lemon room, bread pagodas and Plexiglas curtains with objects melted into them. Equipped with headphones, visitors walk through six stations on a course that addresses the geopolitical and climate policy upheavals of our time in a variety of ways. The desire for maximum stability and efficiency is juxtaposed with the fragility of the individual who has begun to falter. Inspired by Max Frisch's "Man Appears in the Holocene", this immersive composition combines video, sculpture, object, sound and narration to create a spatial experience of the fragile.

Production supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cultural Office of the City of Münster, Sparkasse Münsterland Ost
Co-production with Theater im Pumpenhaus
Supported by RESET e. V., Theater in der Meerwiese, WIESE eG Hamburg and Sonnenglas

RUE OBSCURE (Germany)

RUE OBSCURE is a Münster-based theater and performance collective whose work is characterized by border crossings between visual and performing arts. In addition to its interest in site-specific works, the team is increasingly developing immersive settings that allow the audience to interactively immerse themselves in the reality of the play. The collective works under the direction of Anne Keller, Karina Behrendt and Katharina Kolar. Often inspired by surreal and magical-realist texts, RUE OBSCURE's installation "Gesichertes Gelände" refers to the human mania for having to administer nature.

Idea RUE OBSCURE, Sven Stratmann Text Max Frisch Dramaturgy Katharina Kolar, Anne Keller Scenography Anne Keller, Nadja Berkenkopf Video and lighting design Sven Stratmann Audio direction Katharina Kolar, Sven Stratmann, Anne Keller Set design Nadja Berkenkopf, Anne Keller, Karina Behrendt Voice Amelie Barth Set construction Bernd Heitkötter Production management Katharina Kolar Public relations Rita Roring, Carola Uehlken Graphic design Jeannette Gramsch-Behrendt Mediation work Katharina Kolar, Anne Keller Outside Eye Trickster-p Production RUE OBSCURE Rights Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin

When:
Wed. 05.11., from 18.00 hrs
Thu. 06.11., from 18.00 hrs
Fri. 07.11., from 18.00 hrs

Duration: 50 minutes, in German
Information: Limited barrier-free access only. There is standing room only.

Information at: www.rue-obscure.de

Cover photo: Patrick Sobottka

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