An intense theater experience in mixed reality.

CLASH Digital Resurrections

Two young women from different cultural worlds meet in a mystical place outside of time and space, where nothing seems impossible.
In this environment, important female figures such as the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut, Jacky Onassis Kennedy and Joan of Arc gradually appear to them. The encounters lead to reflections on patriarchy, power, war and love and the question of whether we can really hope for a more just world.

At the beginning, the play uses augmented reality – a technology in which digital elements are added to the real environment using special glasses. This also raises questions about the possibilities and limits of digitally reviving the deceased. Can we bring loved ones back from death, overcome farewells, find comfort? At least digitally?

Poster

BOOKING

World Premiere by
Nora Amin / Irina Kastrinidis

For theatre organizations, theatre/art festivals, and educational institutions

The first theatre production in Switzerland to incorporate Augmented Reality (AR) technology into live performance.

No foreign language skills required.

An intense mixed reality theatre experience for all generations.

AUGMENTED REALITY (AR)

differs from VR in that additional objects/avatars are added to the real world in AR. The reality is expanded. The artists and coders of the boat people project are responsible for the AR effects in the production: CLASH is the third production for which they are experimenting with AR glasses of the brand MAGIC LEAP. An app was specially programmed for the effects, the movements of the avatars were partly created using motion capture technology, and the objects were designed to match the piece. The dramaturgy follows an «open world format» – each visitor can explore the space at his or her own pace, there is no predefined sequence. Some of the objects and avatars are interactive, i.e. they react to hand or eye movements. It is therefore recommended to keep moving your hands and head to fully experience the immersive experience.

World Premiere

FABRIKTHEATER ROTE FABRIK ZURICH
THURSDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2024

Touring

Germany Tour

Kulturzentrum Pavillon Hannover
WERKRAUM Göttingen

Tunisia Tour

JTC Carthage
Les Journées Théâtrales de Carthage – at Salle Carré d’Art, El Teatro Tunis
Jeelen Art Events Home in Nabeul
Cultural space Le Majestic in Bizerte

Egypt Tour

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival in Cairo – D-CAF
Jesuit Cultural Centre in Alexandria

Readings

WAVES OF HOPE AND DESPAIR
EGYPTIAN WOMEN WRITERS IN TIMES OF TURBULENCE
with MAYSOON MAHFOUZ, NADIA KAMEL & MARIAM ABDEL AZIZ

Rote Fabrik Zurich
Literature Podium, Fabriktheater

lit.z – Stans
Reading and discussion

Authors’ Reading
NORA AMIN & IRINA KASTRINIDIS
Rote Fabrik Zurich

A reading and discussion with Nora Amin and I

Credits

Text world premiere
Nora Amin & Irina Kastrinidis

Directing
Peter Braschler

Dramaturgy | Cultural ConsultingSpecial Researches – Arab World
Maysoon Mahfouz
Ahmed El Attar – D-Caf-Festival

Cultural counseling & language
Taoufik Jebali, El Teatro, Tunis

Actresses
Meret Bodamer & Hadeer Moustafa

The Voice
Thea Dumsch, german
Maysoon Mahfouz, arabic

Composition / Production
Matthias Hillebrand-Gonzalez, phatm studio

Set Design
Stephan Schwendimann, möbel raum

Costume
Sabina Hexspoor, Tatmotiv

Lighting & technical management
Michael Omlin

Technique
Jan Gubser
Technical Director, Egypt: Mido Sadek
Technical Director, Tunisia: Walid Hassir

Video, visual effects, Social Media
Michel Weber

Design / Realisation Augmented Reality
Reimar de la Chevallerie, bpp, Göttingen
Nina de la Chevallerie, bpp, Göttingen

Concept Coding AR
Martin Wisniowski, bpp, Köln

3-D object modeling AR
Amer Okdeh, bpp, Berlin

Dance of the avatars for AR
Alena Pajasova

Speaker AR Space
Nora Amin

Graphics / Tagging
Remo Hexspoor

Arabic graphic
Hadi al Abudi

Social Media
Switzerland Remo Hexspoor
Germanv Birte Müchler
Egypt Nahla Soliman
Tunisia Rahma Fakhfakh

Videodok
Switzerland Roni Ulmann
Egypt Roby – Ahmed El Sayed

Production management
Theater Maralam

Co-production
Switzerland IG Rote Fabrik, Konzeptbüro, Zürich
Kyros Kikos, Dagmar Lorenz
Germanv boat people projekt, Göttingen
Nina de la Chevallerie, Birte Müchler
Egypt D-Caf Festival Cairo
Orient Productions, Cairo
Ahmed El Attar

MM for cultural management, Cairo
Maysoon Mahfouz

Tunisia El Teatro Tunis
Taoufiq Jebali, Founder an Artistic Director
Sourour Jebali, Director of Productions
Inès Jebali, Directions of Finance and Administration
Yousra Ammouri, International coordination

© Performance rights Nora Amin – Irina Kastrinidis

Kindly supported by:

IG Rote Fabrik, Konzeptbüro, Zurich I Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zurich I Ernst Göhner Stiftung I boat people projekt, Göttingen I Fonds Darstellende Künste, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur I Hanns-Lilje-Stiftung I Sparkasse Göttingen I Kulturstiftung Göttingen I Goethe Institut Kairo I Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo I MM for cultural management, Cairo I Gönner:innen Theater Maralam I Trans Sped AG, Zurich I A&S Immobilien GmBH I Mufag