Since its foundation in 2002, we have produced and co-produced several theater performances, among which; “One flew Over the Kosovo Theater”, “Yue Madeleine Yue”, “Patriotic Hypermarket”, “The Last Supper”, “War in Times of Love”, “Travel to UNMIKISTAN”, “Enea 06”, “Love. State. Kosovo” “The Demolition of the Eiffel Tower” etc.
We create fresh and innovative theater performances that communicate across lingual and cultural borders and brings these performances to diverse audiences locally and internationally
Some of the theaters and companies with which we have cooperated with are: Volkstheater, Vienna; Markus Zohner Theater Compagnie, Lugano; Nomad theater, London; L'Espace d'un instant, Paris; National Theater of Kosovo, Prishtina; Bitef Theater, Belgrade; CZKD, Belgrade; Oda Theater, Prishtina; National Theater of Albania, Tirana; CTC, Skopje etc.
Our productions have been presented in various festivals throughout Europe, including: Euro-scene Leipzig; Die Besten aus dem Osten, Vienna; Via Modena - Italy; FIT Lugano; Zoom Festival - Croatia; International Theater Festival “JoakimInterFest” Kragujevac - Serbia; Spielart Festival München, Zürcher Theater Spektakel - Switzerland, CULTURESCAPES - Switzerland, Desire Festival Novi Sad - Serbia, Exponto International Theatre Festival – Lubljana ect.
Artistic Concept and Director: Markus Zohner
Dramaturg: Jeton Neziraj
Choreographer: Lucía Baumgartner
Composer: Gabriele Marangoni
Translator and Artistic Collaborator: Shota Bukoshi
Executive Producer: Arben Zharku
Photographer: Christophe Quirion
Technical Director and Light Design: Martin Wieser
Technical Assistant: Skender Latifi
Personal Assistant to Mr. Markus Zohner: Nora Jentzsch
Production Assistants: Alban Makolli, Zoga Çeta, Bekim Guri
Video: FIZZO FILM, Lugano
Space Concept: Jacob Nassi
Producers: Jeton Neziraj, Markus Zohner
Actors: Shengyl Ismaili, Adriana Matoshi, Edona Reshitaj, Arben Zharku, Shkelzen Veseli, Vedat Haxhiislami, Adrijan Biba
Dancer: Lucía Baumgartner
Musician: Gabriele Marangoni
Theatre Performance
Place: National library – Pristina, Kosovo
Opening 18 January 2007, 21:00h
Seven performers from Kosovo, three performers from Switzerland.
Dance, music, sounds, words, texts.
Actors, musicians, dancers and spectators continue the journey of exploring spaces of rememberings.
Past spaces, present spaces, future spaces.
Spaces of fear, spaces of wish, spaces of tears, spaces of hope, spaces of revenge.
Spaces of blood.
After > ACTION 1, which in december 2006 led us into dark, dangerous, cold subterrain rooms, in > ACTION 2 the company has found a clear, open space to be shared between perfomers and public.
An amphitheatre in the heart of Kosovo National Library.
A space embedded into cultural and intellectual heritage of Kosovo, a space surrounded by books, and wrapped up into the timeless odour of paper and ink and shelfs and dust.
However, there is no stage. People are coming together, for sharing time and space.
Again, no entrance fee to be paid, no career to be made, no success to be obtained.
Performers are sitting amongst public, and the closenes of bodies is bound to give the impulse.
Nothing exists.
Just hearts are beating and blood is flowing.
Then, from far away a sound arrives and makes a body move.
The moving body starts to whisper, and another body reacts.
Bodies become voices, voices become words, words become stories.
Stories start to fly.
They move hearts, which again make the blood flow, which again makes the bodies move, which again will create sound, words, stories.
Pulsating blood being transformed into living stories.
Being transformed into stories of rememberings, of revenge, of hope.
Being tranformed into stories of blood, which is just another word for life.
