Thomas Douglas

ANNA PAPST & MATS STAUB

Intimate Revolution

Germany / Switzerland

SIMPLY PUT:

In this piece, you put on headphones. Then you listen to different people talking about their sexuality. You drink a glass of wine with it.

08/23 - 08/30/22 TICKETS + DATES -> LINK.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION:

Sex is omnipresent in the media, but honest conversations about how we desire and what we experience emotionally during sex rarely happen. Few can name what goes on inside them when they have sex. Conversation artists Anna Papst and Mats Staub set out to find people who nevertheless try. In the course of their lives, they all had to or wanted to learn sexuality in a new and conscious way. Their touching and profound stories are presented linguistically condensed and newly recorded. In the wine bar at STÜH33, the audience can expect a collective and at the same time intimate listening experience. Visitors will be served drinks and headphones. Everyone can put together an auditory 4-course menu from a variety of voices and narratives according to their own taste: Would you rather listen to the pensioner who didn't enjoy sex during 25 years of marriage and now lives a 'decently debauched' life? Or the gay young man who rediscovers physical love after eight years of abstinence?

Anna Papst and Mats Staub both work interview-based and across genres between theater, exhibition and literature. Intimate Revolution is their first collective long-term project - the collection of stories will continue to grow through numerous stations after its premiere at the Ruhrtriennale.

A production by zwischen_produktionen. Co-produced with Ruhrtriennale, Zürcher Theaterspektakel, Kaserne Basel, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.

CAST

Idea, concept, direction Anna Papst & Mats Staub
Scenography Luana Paladino

Speakers:

Robert Baranowski, Thomas Douglas, Carolin Jakoby, Florentine Krafft, Kilian Land, Emily Magorian, Mona Petri, Elayne Phillips, Ursula Reiter, Suly Röthlisberger, Carina Thurner, Beren Tuna, Ondrej Vidlar, Lea Whitcher

Dramaturgy Nina Bade
Translation David Tushingham
Sound engineering Philip Bartels
Event technology Hanno Sons, Benno Seidel
Consulting Kristina Marlen, Jessica Sigerist, Alexander Hahne

Artistic production management Ruhrtriennale Zoe Hars
Technical Project Manager Ruhrtriennale Mirko Bartos