Kay Voges, how animated is the inanimate element on the stage?
Theatre is made by people. People provide ideas, voices, bodies. I find it interesting for instance when you introduce the digital element, which then returns this human behaviour. Or when sound, light and video provide impetus that the actors pick up on. This is what we have to look for in theatre – what will give us greater content, greater sensuality?
An unstimulated element can also be a figure, an object, materials.
Naturally it’s interesting when a variety of directors come to us with different interests and talents. Claudia Bauer has often worked with us using large masks, and her work is distinguished by a strong formal and physical language. The Retrofuturisten group has enriched the ensemble’s work by incorporating puppetry. Then there’s the work of the sputnic artists’ collective, which animates and projects live images on the stage in a way that interlinks the origin and the impact of images, taking them on a fantastic voyage. All of these things are important components of our theatre.
For MOBY DICK vs. A.H.A.B. by the Retrofuturisten, puppetry was used on the stage to tell the story in time lapse, in...