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Demons

Theater Basel
6. Mai (Wiederaufnahme) 2023
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27. Mai 2023
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9. Juni 2023
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11. Juni 2023
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23. Juni 2023
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26. Mai (Uraufführung, Premiere) 2022
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10. & 11. Juni 2022
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24. & 25. Juni 2022
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1., 2., 8. Oktober 2022

Concept & directed by: Boris Nikitin, Sebastian Nübling
With: Elisa Dillier, Dominic Hartmann, Elif Duygu Karci, Ann Mayer, Boris Nikitin, Sven Schelker, Julian Anatol Schneider, Lukas Stäuble
Texts: the Ensemble & Boris Nikitin
Video, Live-Camera: Robin Elias Nidecker
Set Design: Dominic Huber
Costumes: Ursula Leuenberger
Sound: Adolfina Fuck
Videoassistance & Live-Camera: Jelïn Nichele
Assistance director: Louisa Raspe, Nora Maritz
Set design assistance: Tobias Maurer
Dramaturgy: Inga Schonlau

A production by Theater Basel in cooperation with Junges Theater Basel.

 

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Bajour: Incredibly good. (...) Everyone is asking themselves, what was that all about, but everyone agrees: 'Demons' is an incredibly impressive document of its time. Where it says "youth" on it, youth is rarely in it, but here the promise was exceeded. "Demons" is not a vessel, it is an organism, a huge, insane, pumping organism that you leave with a surprising sense of confidence after three hours of "Hopelessness!!!": A world with such youth is not lost. Far from it.

Deutschlandfunk: Sometimes everything comes across as casual and everyday, as in the Nouvelle Vague, sometimes it has the wit and aggression of Tarantino films. (...) An intoxicating scene event, precisely planned and rehearsed, dance of death and exorcism in one.
SRF 2: The actors impressively work out the ambivalent feeling of life in this "crazy chaos" that is the world, awake, in a thoughtful setting, with an absolutely intoxicating energy. 
Nachtkritik: Rarely has theatre so formally convincingly and forcefully brought people in search of something like identity closer to each other, who ultimately distrust even their view of reality and yet retain their sense of humour.
bz: The evening lives from, indeed thrills with, the irrepressible energy and power of the young players. (...) They throw themselves into it as if there were no tomorrow. 
Nachtkritik: When the group, until then only known from the screen, moves into the theatre, it has a star appeal. The evening also draws its energy from the exaggeration. The audience enthusiastically jumps up from their seats to the applause.
Theater heute: An intensity and ingenuity spill from the screen into the theater not seen or felt in a long time.

A group of young people moves into the night. They are the grandchildren of the 68ers, who already know about the fading of the 68 movement. They live in a multicultural world, but not in a just one. They do not believe in one God. They may no longer have any religious faith at all, nor do they believe they can influence the world, the powerful constellations of capital, nation states and the globalised market in any way. They have the vocabulary of contemporary discourses, but what is a future if the lesson of the past is that it can no longer be reinvented.
On this evening, they have something in mind. Nothing is taken for granted in the city where all corners are actually familiar. Perception is sharpened as if it were the last evening.

The two directors Sebastian Nübling and Boris Nikitin are working together for the first time and at the same time on a special form of theatre: a live film that is transmitted to the Schauspielhaus on a big screen. The result is a feverish, intoxicating portrait of a generation.

D/E
  • Demons
  • Season One. 20 Years Big Brother
  • 24 frames per second
  • Swiss Propaganda-Conference
  • Attempt on Dying
  • Revolution of the vulnerable
  • It's The Real Thing '19
  • The Opposite of Things
  • don't be yourself - eight self portraits
  • Power and Vulnerability 1-8
  • Presentation of a fake sermon
  • Meet Your Enemy at the Social Muscle Club
  • Martin Luther Propagandasymposium
  • It's The Real Thing 17
  • Hamlet
  • Martin Luther Propagandapiece
  • The audition
  • Sonnet 20
  • X-Appartments Athens
  • It's The Real Thing 15 - Basel Documentary Platform
  • The Joburg Auditions
  • Sänger ohne Schatten
  • Documentation, fake, reality
  • Exit
  • Also the real thing
  • Sei Nicht Du Selbst
  • It's The Real Thing - Basel Documentary Platform 13
  • How to win friends & influence people
  • Bartleby oder Sicherheit ist ein Gefühl
  • Das Grundgesetz
  • Diese Kinder sind in Ordnung
  • Universal Export
  • The broken jar
  • Die Zeitmaschine 1980-2010
  • Woyzeck (Radioplay)
  • X- Schulen
  • Imitation of Life
  • F for Fake (after Orson Welles)
  • Woyzeck