Rabih Mroué, Riding on a Cloud, © Sommerszene Salzburg/Bernhard Müller
Rabih Mroué, Riding on a Cloud, © Sommerszene Salzburg/Bernhard Müller
Rabih Mroué, Riding on a Cloud, © Sommerszene Salzburg/Bernhard Müller
Rabih Mroué, Riding on a Cloud, © Sommerszene Salzburg/Bernhard Müller

RABIH MROUÉ. RIDING ON A CLOUD

Saturday, April 9, 2016, 8 p.m.
WKV at THEATER RAMPE

Pictures; one disappears and another appears. Most of the time, he doesn’t understand the connection between a picture and the one next to it. He needs someone who knows him well to tell about it and set the picture in motion, so it’s not still anymore. When memories in head are like still pictures with no scenes from the past, how the memory works?

The theatre piece of the director Rabih Mroué is an impressive combination of the personal and political: For RIDING ON A CLOUD he invites his brother Yasser to play the role of a character that resembles him personally. A person, who was injured in the Lebanese civil war and lost his ability to use words, Yasser began to shoot videos, which fuse with his recounted memories on stage to form a subjective picture of the political developments in Lebanon. RIDING ON A CLOUD also describes the fragile construction of biography, which emerges between political reality, memories, facts and fiction. For Mroué this is always the starting point for artistic self-reflection, which he then transposes for the theatre and exhibitions.

2014 | 65 minutes
A performance by Rabih Mroué
Written and directed by Rabih Mroué in collaboration with Sarmad Louis
Performer: Yasser Mroué
Language: Arabic with German and English subtitles
English translation: Ziad Nawfal
German translation: Francesca Spinazzi

Co-produced by Fonds Podiumkunsten, Prins Claus Fonds, Hivos & Stichting DOEN / (The Netherlands).
Special thanks to: Lina Saneh, Frie Leysen, Mroué's family (Souad, Ahmad, Ammar, Ziad, Maha, Mazen, Nabil and Fatima Bazzi), Ahlam Awada, Samar Maakaroun, Janine Broud, Karma and Nadi Louis.
Thanks to: Hito Steyerl, Manal Khader, Eric Baudelaire, Paul Khodr, Lamia Joreige, Joanna Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Fariba Derakhshani, Mohamad Hojeiry, Matthias Lilienthal, Ali Zuraik, Louis Family, Petra Serhal, Hagop Derghougassian, Ziad Mroué, Christine Tohmé and Ashkal Alwan.

Venue/ Tickets
Theater Rampe
Filderstraße 47, 70180 Stuttgart
Tel: +49 (0)711 620 09 090
theaterrampe.de

Entrance fees
16 Euro / reduced 9 Euro /
Members of Württembergischer Kunstverein: free

An event by
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
In the context of
Die Bestie ist der Souverän
In collaboration with
Theater Rampe

Curators

Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Paul B. Preciado, Valentín Roma

Funded by
Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Württemberg

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