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“All the realistic elements contribute to a performance that is so gripping that when it ends the audience is unsure whether to clap of leave the theater silently.” – Noordhollands Dagblad

Feb 3–6, 8pm
Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre

Post-show talkback with artists and Roberta Kremer
Feb 4, led by Jane Heyman

Running Time 60m

Performers Herman Helle, Pauline Kalker, Arlène Hoornweg
Sound Design Ruud van der Pluijm with thanks to Marcel Lugtenborg
Technicians Aram Visser, Joris van Oosterhout
Decor and puppets Cathrin Boer, Heleen Wiemer, Kirsten Hutschemakers, Stefan Gross, Dirk Vroemen, Annette Scheer, Marije de Wit, Florus Groenewegen, Wilco Kwerreveld, Brigid Noone

An enormous scale model of Auschwitz fills the stage, with thousands of tiny handmade puppets representing the prisoners and their executioners. Rows of overcrowded barracks, barbed wire fences, a railway track and a gateway with the words “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Liberates”) forms a chilling and desolate landscape, painstakingly recreated. Actors move through the set like giant war reporters, filming the horrific events with miniature cameras and live video projection. Through a series of wordless vignettes, these delicate puppets made of clay, wire and cloth, re-enact the atrocities that took place within the confines of Auschwitz almost 70 years ago.

“The makers have found a performance form that makes it possible to once again discuss this loaded subject. By raising the issue of the extremes to which people are able to go. With dignity.” – De Volkskrant, Amsterdam

Hotel Modern is an innovative and internationally acclaimed theatre collective from the Netherlands, established in 1997. Known for blending visual art, puppetry, music, film and live performance, their evocative productions are centered on scale models used to represent harsh and unspeakable realities in a poetic manner. In their own words, they attempt “to offer solace to a society and a world in which people sometimes seem fearful of one another.”

www.hotelmodern.nl

With the support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy.

Tickets Advance $30/24; at door $32/26


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Related postings on PuShing It: The PuSh Festival Blog
January 17, 2010 - PuSh 2010 Curatorial Statement: KAMP


Links
- Watch a chilling clip from KAMP on Youtube
- Read an interview published in the January 14th Georgia Straight with Hotel Modern and Janet Smith.
- KAMP is presented in partnership with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, read an article about KAMP in their quarterly newsletter Zachor

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