Was the fire an accident, an attack or simply a game of nature? "Territory" tells the story of a woman's fate and the clash of two worlds: As a young woman, she is taken in to work in the manor house of a large agricultural company, thus escaping poverty.
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From then on, she lives with a family that is not her family. She is there, but never fully belongs. At the same time, her community of origin considers her a traitor. The German settlers are too hated for their industrial exploitation of nature. The further expansion of agricultural land leads to increasingly violent conflicts between colonizers and locals.
Eventually, a fire destroys the property. The landowners die. The only survivor, the employee, is quickly suspected of having murdered her foster parents.
"Territory" is a play about a tormented, oppressed landscape and about the clash of different worldviews.
What impact does the colonial project have to this day? The European conquest of land led to a new spatial order all over the world: nature was enclosed and fenced in. The construction of a territory presupposes a power that controls borders in order to exclude others. At the same time, this authority monitors what happens within the fenced-in area and controls the exploitation of the area.
However, this perspective, which relies on utilization, technology and machines, ignores what was there before: perhaps the creatures of the landscape have not been displaced at all, but continue to inhabit their ancestral place as a shadowy existence?
Director Marco Layera has been to the FIND Festival four times with his Chilean company »teatro la re-sentida«: »Tratandode hacer una obra que cambie el mundo« (2014), »La imaginación del futuro« (2015), »Paisajes para no colorear« (2019) and most recently with the world premiere of »Oasis de la Impunidad« (2022). For »Territorium«, Marco Layera is now working with the Schaubühne ensemble for the first time.
(PLAY IN GERMAN)
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Participating artists
(Sound)
(Künstlerische Mitarbeit/Choreografie)
Vanessa Sampaio Borgmann (Kostüme)
Jan Pappelbaum (Bühne)
Martín Valdés-Stauber (Dramaturgie)
Damir Avdic (Mit)
İlknur Bahadır (Mit)
Holger Bülow (Mit)
David Ruland (Mit)
Julia Schubert (Mit)
Dates
January 2025
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