TIERGARTEN
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Thu 11 sep '2520:30 - 22:05Philipszaal
In the musical performance TIERGARTEN a group of actors with and without disabilities look back on the mass murder of psychiatric patients in Nazi Germany 80 years after the end of World War II. All actors would have past event victims because of their vulnerability, appearance or disability. This puts them in a special position to speak out about this history. They look back on the events from their own reality, in which they experience exclusion firsthand every day. They demand the right to tell the story: not about us, without us.
Anyone who could not work, learn or heal was economically useless in Nazi Germany and was subjected to unsolicited euthanasia. The most systematic phase of this "purification" is known as T4, an abbreviation of Tiergartenstrasse 4, the address where the program was conceived and organized.
In TIERGARTEN this gripping story is told as a collective narrative. The actors alternately play perpetrators, victims, family members, witnesses and themselves. It becomes musical theater through the collaboration with the DoelenEnsemble. Christine Cornwell and Maarten van Veen of the DoelenEnsemble play both Beethoven and contemporary music.
- Free introduction at 19:30
"Impressive, sweeping performance. Greatly played."
About Theater Babel Rotterdam
Theater Babel's ensemble consists of a neurologically very diverse group of actors with a wide variety of talents, limitations and backgrounds. The company always collaborates with other creators from the professional field. Theater Babel is committed to a society in which everyone is free to be different and we value differences between people.
Credits
Coproduction of Theater Babel Rotterdam and the DoelenEnsemble
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