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Dear guest This is an introduction to the international programme of CPH STAGE 2018 taking place May 31st – June 2nd. Surrounding the performances, there will be an industry programme every day 10AM – 2PM, reception with sneak premiere and late night meet ups on these days. We look forward to meeting you.

CPH STAGE is a Fringe festival and 2018 will be the 6th edition of the festival.

It’s is a national festival presenting a variety of Danish and international performing arts. This year the festival presents more than 90 shows and several events aiming to light up the festival.

The programme can seem a bit overwhelming and therefore we have highlighted three kinds of selections in the programme – the curated opening shows, the selected shows for the international programme and the highlight selection made for the audiences.

You can also search cphstage.dk/en/program – selecting “available to non-danish speakers”.

Please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any kinds of questions.

Welcome!

Very Best, Karen Toftegaard International Project Manager

CPH STAGE Cell +45 2298 6743 Mail [email protected]

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We have three selected lines in this years festivalprogramme. The SELECTED three opening shows are curated in a collaboration between CPH OPENING SHOWS STAGE and the venues in the Meatpacking District (S/H, Husets teater, Warehouse9).

We’re so proud to present the international opening shows:

RIDING ON A CLOUD (RL) by Rabih Mroué at S/H

WIR WOLLEN PLANKTON SEIN (DE) by Julian Pörksen / Schauspiel Köln at Husets Teater

(I COULD GO ON SINGING) OVER THE RAINBOW) (UK) by FK Alexander at Warehouse9

The curated opening shows all move in a vibrating space between the personal and political – where theatre as an artfom is chal- lenged. They all include a meta level where they refer to former works and to the artform itself.

For the first time, we have curated 8 full-length performances with SELECTED professional standards within it’s artistic terms specifically for the PERFORMANCES international programme (based on an Open Call). FOR THE EXODUS (Performance) by Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt INTERNATIONAL & Andreas Liebmann PROGRAMME MASS (Dance installation) by Recoil Performance Group COUNTRY OF NO DREAMS (Performance) by Fix&Foxy

THE GREAT PARADOX OF PLAY (Contemporary Circus) by Rapid Eye

DUST (Music dramatics/neo puppetry) by Sew Flunk Fury Wit

V.O.M.P. (Dance) by Gunilla Lind Danseteater

Additionally the theatre plays MANNING (Mungo Park) and THE GREAT DICTATOR (Nørrebro Teater) have been selected and will be texted for English-speaking audience.

You can read more about the background for the curation and the Selection Committee here: cphstage.dk/en/8-performances-receive-support-play-international-days/

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HIGHLIGHTS Highlights during the international days: THE NIGHT (DK/DE) by HELLO!EARTH (co-produced with Copenhagen International Theatre)

You can bring your sleeping bag (we’ll lend you one) and your toothbrush and sleep at the performance THE NIGHT — VISION- ING A POST — CAPITALIST SOCIETY WHILE WE SLEEP which is a co-production between HELLO!EARTH and Copenhagen Interna- tional Theatre.

The committee also highlights The Danish Theatre’s new dance company Corpus. Constantly they challenge the classical ballet, develops the dance and explores the boundaries for performing arts in collaboration with the audiences. At CPH STAGE they present the shows ONE ONE ONE and FALL.

WE WOULD TUE BIERING – a noticeable Danish director LIKE TO GIVE He has created COUNTRY OF NO DREAMS and A DOLLS HOUSE (Fix&Foxy). You can experience both during the international ATTENTION TO programme – in English. A DOLLS HOUSE was first produced by the Royal Danish Theatre and the National Theatre of Oslo and following critical acclaim a part of the Oslo International Acting Festival. This English version is co-produced with Theatre of Europe. Tue Biering also premiered as a playwright this season with one of the most talked about performance – ROCKY. This show has been highlighted by the festival’s Highlight-committee who points out shows for the audiences.

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(NB: International shows for the period June 3rd – June 9th is listed at the end of this document) CPH STAGE 2018 International programme

CREDITS Performance Kirstine Lindemann (Concept) Lasse Munk (Sound Designer) BREATH – Exploring breath Kirstine Lindemann (Performer) Lasse Munk (Musician) (Nonverbal) Louise Skaaning (Consultant) Lasse Munk, Kirstine Lindemann by DUMMYKOPF (Composer) We all breathe. PLAYTIME Do you breathe like I do? Friday 01st June 5.00pm What does breathing express? Friday 01st June 9.00pm Saturday 02nd June 5.00pm

VENUE Teaterøen William Wains Gade 11 1432 København K

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CREDITS Performance Emilie Bendix (Director, Playwright & Composer) CIRCLES (English) Andreas Sindberg (Director, Playwright & Composer) by BLACK BOX PANGEA Nana Lind (Performer & Composer) Kasper Ørum (Performer & Composer) CIRCLES is a new creation exploring and examining circles as a form, as a way of life and as a condition for human existence. CIR- PLAYTIME CLES investigates the circles that surround us: Daily life routines, Friday 01st June 9.00pm the repetitiveness of history, the groups we are a part of, how we Saturday 02nd June 9.00pm are all connected to one another. Wednesday 06th June 9.00pm Thursday 07th June 9.00pm CIRCLES is a performance, a fugue, a raga, a canon, a world of repe- titions, music, poetry and movement. VENUE Ved Staldgade 35 CIRCLES is created under the sky together with the audience as Staldgade 35 a nonverbal performance accompanied by the languages of the 1699 København V participating audience. Therefore the performance will change according to the audience present. MORE INFO www.facebook.com/BlackBoxPangea

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CREDITS Maret Tamme (Playwright & Scenographer) Anders Tougaard (Playwright & Performer) Tobias Shaw (Playwright, Performer & Composer) Thomas Bernhard (Playwright)

PLAYTIME Thursday 31st May 10.00pm Friday 01st June 9.00pm

VENUE Teaterøen William Wains Gade 11 1432 København K

MORE INFO www.gardenpartytheatre.weebly.com

Performance CORRECTION (English) by GARDENPARTY

CORRECTION is a manic performance about perfection and perver- sion based on Thomas Bernhard’s novel Korrektur. The scientist Roithamer has built a perfect cone in the Kobernausser forest and then committed suicide. He is the sublime monster.

In CORRECTION two performers investigate the meeting between text and body. Like throwing yourself off a cliff. For a moment you become one with the air. Identity is lost. We will dance thinking. Thinking underlined.

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CREDITS Performance Tue Biering (Playwright & Director) Lise Lauenblad (Actor) COUNTRY OF NO DREAMS Anders Mosling (Actor) Tanja Diers (Dramaturg) (English)

PLAYTIME by FIX&FOXY Saturday 2nd June 4.00pm Saturday 2nd June 10.00pm Sunday 03rd 13.00pm SELECTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

VENUE In Country of no dreams two people arrive from the future an- Sort/Hvid nouncing to be our saviors. They are here to save us from our- Staldgade 16-30 selves. They address the audience as a selected crowd, able to 1699 Copenhagen V save this planet if, and only if, they (we) start dreaming. The future depends on it. MORE INFO www.fixfoxy.com This is a performance for people who love imaginative universes and performing art that challenges our minds and questions the way we think of ourselves and our surroundings – especially the future.

The performance is inspired by Valérian et Laureline, a 1967 science fiction comic by French writer Pierre Christin.

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CREDITS Performance DR DR Symfoniorkestret (Musician) DR DR Vokalensemblet (Kor) CULT CLASSICS (English) The Theatre of Voices (Vocal) Edoardo Sanguineti og Platon by HOLLAND HOUSE & (Playwright) Luciano Berio og Louis Andriessen DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHO- (Composer) NY ORCHESTRA PLAYTIME Thursday 31st May 7.30pm Two modern cult classics presented in a grand visual and dramatic performance: Luciano Berios’ Laborintus II, inspired by Dantes’ Di- VENUE vine Comedy and Louis Andriessens’ hard-hitting De Staat inspired Koncerthuset by Platos’ Republic – two groundbreaking compositions that erase Ørestads Boulevard 13 the boundaries between classical concert, opera and performance 2300 København SV art. Experience the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, their Vocal MORE INFO Ensemble and soloists from Theatre of Voices in Berios’ lucid and https://drkoncerthuset.dk/event/hol- jazzy avantgarde music and Andriessens’ big band inspired land- land-house-dr-symfoniorkestret-2/ mark composition. The Reumert awarded director and designer Jacob F. Schokking creates the video installation and stages the performance

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CREDITS Site-specific performance Tue Biering (Concept) Jeppe Kristensen (Concept) A DOLLS HOUSE (English) Pelle Nordhøj Kann (Director) Cassie Raine (Actor) by FIX&FOXY and TEATER- Jamie Zubairi (Actor) Ben Samuels (Actor) GRAD Ibsen (Playwright) Ibsen understood acutely how people interact and wanted his PLAYTIME theatre to be like real life. That is why the Danish theatre company Thursday 31st May 5.00pm Fix&Foxy have taken Ibsen’s most performed play and staged it Friday 01st June 7.00pm in real homes with real people. This unique production was first Saturday 02nd June 1.00pm produced by the Royal Danish Theatre and the National Theatre of Oslo and following critical acclaim a part of the Oslo International VENUE Acting Festival. An apartment in Copenhagen c/o Teatergrad (not venue), Fix&Foxy’s A DOLL’S HOUSE received its UK premiere as part of Nørrebrogade 208 Chelsea Theatre and Theatre of Europe in Rep. It is performed in 2200 Copenhagen N English in a translation made by Peter Woltemade.

MORE INFO www.fixfoxy.com

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CREDITS Shaymaa Shoukry (Choreographer & Performer) Noura Seif (Performer) Mohamed Shakif (Musician) Saber el Sayed (Light Design & Technical Director) Philip Mounir (Light Design & Technical Director)

PLAYTIME Friday 01st June 19.30pm Saturday 02nd June 13.30pm

VENUE Warehouse9 Halmtorvet 11B 1700 København

Dance DOUBLE BILL (Nonverbal + English) Double Bill is supported by the Danish Egyptian by SHAYMAA SHOUKRY Dialogue Institute

WINNER OF SUMMERHALL’S “FESTIVAL SPECIAL MOMENTS AWARD”, EDINBURGH 2017

DOUBLE BILL consists of two performances. The first performance The Resilience of the Body (20 min.) is a solo that aims to find continuity and perseverance in the world we live in today, using repetition within the action of running and spoken text to express the inner struggles. This performance questions the practicalities of urban daily life, social pressures, political context and existential matters. Shoukry created The Resilience of the Body with an urge to reintegrate her last choreographic works into her body and re-find dance. Dance however could not be found, and for the first time in her work, text found its way into the performance.

Portray (30 min.) is the second performance. This piece was created with an urge to unravel the layers of a body through its reser- voir, tapping into timeless states of being through an inner grove, connecting through the bliss of letting go. Portray is a continuation of Shoukry’s choreographic curiosity about inner movement, repetition, transformation and the action of shaking.

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CREDITS Musical Performance Svend E. Kristensen (Concept) Jeppe Pedersen (Concept) DUST(English) Jeppe Pedersen (Director) Peter Kolhmetz Møller (Composer) by SEWFLUNKFURYWIT Svend E. Kristensen (Performer) Nina Sveistrup Clausen (Soprano) Kristian Knudsen (Set Design) In DUST five fascinating human-sized puppets, a luminescent Neill Kardinal Furio (Lyricist) opera soprano, and a shadowy figure tell the tale of a world gone Lise Klitten (Costume Designer) horribly wrong. A dramatically rendered, contemporary song-cycle Line Bech (Costume Designer) imagines what little is left after an unavoidable global climate-ca- Mikkel Jensen (Light Designer) tastrophe have struck in this sensual and moving puppet-dystopia.

PLAYTIME In 2016, DUST was nominated for the prestigious official Danish Friday 01st June 4.00pm Reumert Award in the category of The Jury’s Special Prize. The Saturday 02nd June 4.00pm webmagazine CPH Culture nominated the play for best female vocalist and best music dramatics. The Danish Art Council for stage VENUE arts awarded STØV/DUST with its special annual prize 2016. Folketeatret Nørregade 39 DUST represents a unique approach to New Music Theatre with 1165 København K the use of the foremost puppetry mixed with opera. This unique hybrid approaches audiences in areas of performance, puppetry, MORE INFO musicdramatics and opera. http://sewflunkfurywit.dk/stovdust/

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CREDITS Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt (Concept, Playwright & Performer) Andreas Liebmann (Concept, Playwright & Performer) Manuel Gerst (Scenographer) Matthias Meppelink (Sound Designer & Composer) Tanja Diers (Dramaturge) Annegret Schalke (Lighting Designer) Tiaheswery Thiaharaja (Choreographer) Johanna Peine (Consultant) Manuel Gerst (Costume Designer) Annett Hardegen (Production Lead)

PLAYTIME Friday 01st June 3.00pm Friday 01st June 10.00pm

VENUE Husets Teater Halmtorvet 9 1700 København V Performance MORE INFO www.andreasliebmann.net EXODUS (English) by Andreas Liebmann & Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt

SELECTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

A Swiss-Danish family travels to Sicily. They visit a house in the mountains called Mondo Nuevo. This is the provisional home of nine Nigerian men, who are recovering from a boat trip and waiting for further travel documents. The North European guests and the inhabitants of Mondo Nuevo exchange songs for songs and estab- lish temporary friendship.

EXODUS is a performance concert by and with the family Lieb- mann-Schmidt. Inspired by medieval tradition, the tale is sung on the melody of the Danish ballad Kongebørnene, and reports from a valley on the other side of the mountains. EXODUS was produced in 2015. In 2018, it is already an archive of lost optimism within the recent history of migration.

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CREDITS Impro theatre Sarah Caroline Kenter (Concept & Director) FELT (English) Charlotte Munck (Actor) Laura Bach (Actor) by FELT Laura Drasbæk (Actor) Cyron Melville (Actor) FELT performs fully improvised theatre performances with a coher- Johannes Nymark (Actor) ent dramaturgy. There is no given text, no scenery, costumes nor Sebastian Jessen (Actor) props. Authentic characters and a rounded story are created on the spot. The actors weave realism, dialogues, and poetic monologues PLAYTIME into a coherent expression, with the aim to portray existential Friday 01st June 10.30pm themes. Life lived and loved in sometimes possible, sometimes Saturday 02nd June 10.30pm impossible ways.

VENUE 3-6 actors from the FELT ensemble will be performing. Teatret ved Sorte Hest Vesterbrogade 150 1620 København V

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CREDITS Anika Barkan (Performer) Jakob Stage (Performer) Lydia Östberg Diakité (Performer) Malika Sia Graff (Performer) Carlos Romão (Performer) Erogan Adanir (Performer) Jonas Lindegaard Jacobsen (Performer) Birgitte Lyregaard (Performer) Boaz Barkan (Playwright & Composer) Jørgen Teller (Playwright & Composer)

PLAYTIME Friday 01st June 5.30pm @ DK Saturday 02nd June 2.30pm @ KT Performance Saturday 02nd June 5.30pm @ KT PEOPLES ALL OUT CHOIR VENUE DK (English) Dansekapellet Bispebjerg Torv 1 by ALTERATION 2400 København NV

KT OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE Kvægtorvet Halmtorvet 11 PEOPLES ALL OUT CHOIR is an evocative action-sound choir that 1700 København V plays with national narratives and symbols. Our flag, our songs, our people. What does this ‘our’ include?! MORE INFO www.facebook.com/Folkets-All-Out- Eight unique individuals perform simultaneously a series of scenes Choir-1978499685737815/ that intersect song, performance and actions from everyday life. In an intense flow, the ensemble draws the audience into a patch- work of personal stories based on ‘us the people’. The performers use voices and actions as well as a personal collection of objects such as: carpets, irons, iPhones, chainsaws, toy raiders, ect. for a musical and scenic story. All side by side, in a row.

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CREDITS Theatre Erik Pold (Director) Rikke Juellund (Scenographer) FOOL (English) Johannes Lilleøre (Actor) by LIMINAL PLAYTIME Thursday 31st May 4.30pm (DK) Friday 01st June 4.30pm (ENG) OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE Saturday 02nd June 2.00pm (ENG) Saturday 02nd June 4.30pm (ENG) Does the fool have a place in society today and who is he? In the performance FOOL we meet the modern fool who has devoted his whole life to this role and to his modern “fool technique”. His VENUE methods lead him into great moral dilemmas, and radical choices Teater V – Prøvehallen must be made. Choices that end up pushing him over the edge. Porcelænstorvet 4 2500 Valby “I have studied people. I know what they will do before they do it. That’s why I have an advantage. I’m always one step ahead.” MORE INFO www.liminal.dk FOOL is a devised performance created in close collaboration between director Erik Pold and actor Johannes Lilleøre. Taking in- spiration from among others Donald Trump, it has become a story about the little man you fear a little.

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CREDITS Alessandro Sousa Pereira (Choreographer) Sebastian Kloborg (Choreographer) Edhem Jesenkovic (Choreographer) Danish Dance Theatre Dancers (Dancers)

PLAYTIME Thursday 31st May 8.00pm Friday 01st June 8.00pm Saturday 02nd June 5.00pm Saturday 02nd June 8.00pm

VENUE Det Kongelige Teater – Operaen Ekvipagemestervej 10 1438 København K

MORE INFO www.danskdanseteater.dk

Dance THE GENERATOR (Nonverbal) by DANISH DANCE THEATRE

THE GENERATOR is an event that started in 2017, where three choreographers are given the opportunity to develop their artistic ideas and individual styles. In 2018, the three choreographers creating works for THE GENERATOR are, once again, the award-win- ning Brazilian choreographer Alessandro Sousa Pereira from Danish Dance Theatre, the Bosnian performer and choreographer Edhem Jesenkovic and the former corps de ballet dancer from The Royal Danish Ballet, Sebastian Kloborg.

THE GENERATOR generates works that investigate, challenge and captivate!

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CREDITS Nikolaj Cederholm (Director & Playwright – based on Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator © Roy Export S.A.S. All Rights Reserved) Kim Witzel (Setdesigner) Line Bech (Costume Designer) Anja Gaardbo (Choreographer) Olaf Johannessen (Actor) Søren Pilmark (Actor) Jesper Hyldegaard (Actor) Henrik Noél Olesen (Actor) Anders Budde Christensen (Actor) Emil Bodenhoff-Larsen (Actor) Asbjørn Krogh Nissen (Actor) Peter Zandersen (Actor) Julie Agnete Vang (Actor) Olivier Antunes (Arranger & Musician) Kåre Bjerkø (Music Consultant) Kasper Ravnhøj (Slapstick Consultant)

PLAYTIME Thursday 31st May 8.00pm Friday 01st June 8.00pm Saturday 02nd June 3.00pm Tuesday 05th June 8.00pm Wednesday 06th June 8.00pm Thursday 07th June 8.00pm Friday 08th June 8.00pm Theatre Saturday 09th June 3.00pm THE GREAT DICTATOR VENUE Nørrebro Teater – Chaplin’s The Great Ravnsborggade 3 2200 København N Dictator as theatre (Danish

MORE INFO with English subtitles) www.nbt.dk by NØRREBRO TEATER

SELECTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

Experience nine acclaimed Danish actors and a live foley artist/ piano player in Nikolaj Cederholm’s physical and visually strong staging of Charlie Chaplin’s legendary movie. A touching, funny and relevant comedy about the power of power, the hope of humanity and the fight for a world without war.

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CREDITS Samuel Gustavsson (Director) Signe Beckmann (Scenographer) Iro Suraci (Lighting Designer) Axel Adlercreutz (Performer) David Tholander (Performer) Robert Jägerhorn (Performer) Sture Ericson (Musician) Emil Odler (Technician)

PLAYTIME Friday 01st June 3.00pm Saturday 02nd June 3.00pm

VENUE Dansekapellet, København Bispebjerg Torv 1 2400 København NV

MORE INFO www.rapideye.dk

Contemporary circus THE GREAT PARADOX OF PLAY (Nonverbal) by RAPID EYE

SELECTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

A magically playful performance that lets go of the seriousness and the rat-race. On the stage, old tricks are awakened in new disguis- es, with room for slowness and space to pursue the impulses of the moment. The performance is accompanied by a subtle live electro-acoustic soundtrack.

THE GREAT PARADOX OF PLAY surprises, inspires, investigates and celebrates the purposeless play that is so fundamental to our human existence. With clever movements, the three magicians transform the stage into an illusory universe dedicated to play and magic.

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CREDITS Reading Vivian Nielsen (Playwright) Jeanette Munzert (Playwright) GROB BOX: New Danish Abelone Koppel (Playwright) Christian Ceresoli (Playwright) and international writing Shahbaz Sahwar (Playwright) Morten Dahl Lützhøft (Playwright) (Danish – selected Jesper Pedersen (Playwright) Gao Xiaqin (Playwright) performances with

PLAYTIME English text) Friday 01st June 4.00pm Friday 01st June 5.30pm by GROB Friday 01st June 7.00pm Saturday 02nd June 5.00pm Teater Grob presents Danish and international new writings, per- Saturday 02nd June 7.00pm formed as staged readings by some of the best Danish actors. Saturday 02nd June 8.30pm Tuesday 05th June 3.00pm See detailed programme at www.grob.dk May 1st. Friday 08th June 7.00pm

VENUE Teater Grob Nørrebrogade 37 2200 København N

MORE INFO www.grob.dk

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CREDITS Hanne Trap Friis (Concept & Director) Susanne Andreasen (Concept & Dramaturg) Morten Ladefoged (Lighting Designer) Gerth Lyberth (Sound Designer) Kuupik Kleist (Consultant) Camilla Nielsen (Scenographer) Klaus Geisler (Actor) Kristian Mølgaard (Actor) Hans-Henrik Poulsen (Actor) Miki Jacobsen (Actor) Julie Helbak (Production Lead) Niviaq Korneliussen (Playwright)

PLAYTIME Friday 01st June 8.00pm Saturday 02nd June 5.30pm Saturday 02nd June 10.00pm Sunday 03rd June 3.00pm

VENUE Husets Teater Halmtorvet 9 1700 Kønenhavn V

MORE INFO Performance www.freezeproductions.dk THE GREENLANDIC MAN (Greenlandish with Danish and English subtitles) by TEATER FREEZE PRODUCTIONS

Angutivik means “real man” in Greenlandic. But who is he this “real” Greenlandic man? In Denmark and in Greenland? Teater freeze- Productions and The National Theatre of Greenland presents THE GREENLANDIC MAN as a redefining performance portrait, which will show you the Greenlandic man from a whole new perspective. The performance is build upon true stories given from Green- landic men in Denmark and in Greenland. Through montages of music, dance, and movement the four Greenlandic actors unfold the Greenlandic man as he is in the new millennium: his dreams, desires, life, love, happiness and sorrows.

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CREDITS Theatre Rhea Leman (Concept, Playwright, Dramaturg, Choreographer & Director) HITLER ON THE ROOF Lone Ernest (Scenographer) Michael Breiner (Lighting Designer) (English) Baldur Kampmann (Sound Designer) Hanne Mørup (Costume Designer) by TEATRET VED SORTE Ina-Miriam Rosenbaum (Contributor) Søren Bang Jensen (Contributor) HEST

PLAYTIME Since the premiere of HITLER ON THE ROOF in 2011, the world has Thursday 31st May 8.00pm become more frightening and unsafe. With todays leaders being Friday 01st June 8.00pm compared to the terrifying leader-characters of the past, the topics Saturday 02nd June 5.00pm presented in HITLER ON THE ROOF become more relevant than ever before. VENUE Teatret ved Sorte Hest The year is 2018. Goebbels sits in his bombed out bunker and Vesterbrogade 150 sends out propaganda to the whole world via his radioshow called 1620 København V Arts, Culture and Communication. In steps Leni Riefenstahl, Germa- ny’s most recognized film director. The two start a dramatic show- MORE INFO down about responsibility and self-censorship. The performance www.sortehest.com revolves around the key questions: “How could this happen?” and “Can it happen again?”

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CREDITS Dance Lene Kreilgaard (Concept & Performer) Jenny Major (Choreographer) HUNGER (English) Erik Ebert (Consultant) Camilla Calundahn-Rehder by AUTO:VERK (Scenographer & Performance lead) Martin Barnung Danielsen (Lighting HUNGER is a solo-performance about craving and addiction. No Designer & Technician) matter who or what we are, hunger and yearning obsessively for Nina Sokol (Playwright) something is not unfamiliar to us. Hunger for food, warmth, money, Knud Riishøjgård (Composer) intimacy, love. Even though not many people in the western world experience true hunger based on lack of food, we know all about PLAYTIME craving different stimuli. Drugs, alcohol, sugar, sex, shopping, social Saturday 02nd June 5.00pm media – and not least work can become an addiction. Sunday 03rd June 5.00pm Monday 04th June 8.00pm HUNGER is a condition of human life, a raw basic instinct that we cannot escape. In the performance Hunger we are confronted with VENUE our own hungry demons and one of the taboos of our society, in a Københavns Musikteater collage of physical images, lyrical text and sound. Emblasgade 175 2100 København Ø

MORE INFO www.lenekreilgaard.dk/hunger

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CREDITS Theatre Maria Kjærgaard-Sunesen (Director) Nicolaj Spangaa (Scenographer) MANNING IS FREE (Danish Anders Budde Christensen (Actor) with English subtitles) PLAYTIME Thursday 31st May 4.00pm by MUNGO PARK

VENUE Betty Nansen Teatret SELECTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME Frederiksberg Allé 57 1820 Frederiksberg C Chelsea Manning was born Bradley Manning. She served in the US military and came into the public eye as the whistle-blower MORE INFO who leaked thousands of confidential reports, images and data www.mungopark.dk about American war-making and foreign policy: overall the great- est number of confidential documents ever leaked to the public. It cost her a sentence of thirty-five years in jail, and while serving her sentence Bradley transitioned to Chelsea. As one of his final presidential acts President Obama pardoned Manning and she was released on 17th May 2017. Now she is free.

MANNING IS FREE is about truths that will come out; a tale of changing the world and changing yourself.

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CREDITS Dance installation Tina Tarpgaard (Choreographer) Pei-Ying Lin (Scenographer) MASS – BLOOM Inge Agnete Tarpgaard (Dramaturg) Søren Knud (Sound Designer) EXPLORATIONS (English) Minshu Haung (Constructor) Hilde I. Sandvold (Dancer) by RECOIL PERFORMANCE Rasmus Sylvest (Production Lead) Viktor K. Magnusson (Production Lead) GROUP Ida Marie Hede (Playwright)

PLAYTIME SELECTED AS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT Thursday 31st May 12.00pm Friday 01st June 12.00pm MASS – BLOOM EXPLORATIONS is an open durational choreograph- Saturday 02nd June 12.00pm ic installation dealing with the issues of decay, decomposition Sunday 03rd June 12.00pm and death. An unlikely symbiotic system between worms, plastic and a human, and a starting point for speculations about survival VENUE strategies and our relationship with others. Visitors are welcome Space10 to explore and interact with the installation, and to come and go as Flæsketorvet 10 they please. 1711 København V MASS – BLOOM EXPLORATIONS is produced in collaboration with MORE INFO Ottawa Dance Directive and Windsor University (CA), Danse- www.recoil-performance.org hallerne and Click Festival. At CPH Stage co-hosted with Space10. Free entrance.

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CREDITS Theatre Martin Ammundsen (Concept, Playwright & Contributer) MEN WHO THINK THEY ARE Betina Birkjær (Dramaturgical consultant) RIGHT (English) Victoria Sofie Percy-Smith (Contributer) by TEATER LUX Eline Juul (Contributer) Maya Korf Jensen (Contributer) We follow the man, that both in his private relationship, as well as in his common relationship with other people, reacts and acts in PLAYTIME the way he feels he is entitled to. Without any filters or empathy, he Friday 01st June 6.00pm lives out his inner desires, and lets nobody – or nothing – stand in Saturday 02nd June 10.00pm the way for his unruly mind, and the world he sees as the right one. But, in reality, a world that is far beyond society norms. Little white VENUE lies, derogatory actions and words, thoughts and dreams of abuse, Basement, København or cunningly planned scenarios. This is the daily life and mindset of Enghavevej 42 the man in the performance. 1674 København V Welcome to MEN WHO THINK THEY ARE RIGHT… – a performance MORE INFO where you will feel and sense, a performance in total darkness. www.facebook.com/teaterlux

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CREDITS Theatre Tanja Mastilo (Idea & Playwright) Sue Hansen-Styles (Idea) MR TESLA PLAYED (English) Bary Wesil (Idea & Technician) Nathan Meister (Idea & Actor) by TEATRET ved SORTE HEST Louise Hjort Hansen (Composer) MR TESLA PLAYED is the story of a deeply fascinating man and his PLAYTIME drive, inventiveness and need to create. It is about his self-control, Wednesday 06th June 5.30pm altruism and his eccentric and principled lifestyle. It is also the sto- Thursday 07th June 5.30pm ry of the loneliness and isolation an inventive soul can experience, Friday 08th June 5.30pm when the scale of his ambition is way ahead of his time. Saturday 09th June 3.00pm Nikola Tesla, who is claimed by many to be the true father of the VENUE electric age, is the classic unsung hero. Teatret ved Sorte Hest Vesterbrogade 150 MR TESLA PLAYED is a monologue performed in an intimate setting, 1620 Københaven allowing the audience to get up close and personal with Tesla. We tell the story of how the smart guys don’t always win against the MORE INFO less smart. www.facebook.com/teaterlux

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CREDITS Vera Maeder (Concept & Performer) Jacob Langaa-Sennek (Concept, Scenographer & Performer) Vera Maeder (Choreographer) Emil Bøll (Sound Designer) Jon Gelting (Technician) Emma Cecilia Ajanki Allende (Performer) Marga Socies (Performer) Boaz Barkan (Performer) Rikke Baes-Carlsen (Performance Lead) Jon Gelting (Technician)

PLAYTIME Friday 01st June 8.00pm Saturday 02nd June 8.00pm Sunday 03rd June 8.00pm Thursday 07th June 8.00pm Site specific performance Friday 08th June 8.00pm Saturday 09th June 8.00pm THE NIGHT (English)

VENUE by HELLO!EARTH Unknown venue (presented by Metropolis) MORE INFO www.www.helloearth.cc/inthemaking SELECTED AS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT

To support a post-capitalist visioning process, each night 30 of us embark on a journey, where the simple beauty of surrendering into the unknown and inhabiting the night together, becomes a plat- form to re-do the economy of meeting and exchange. A collective exploration of the power of sleeping and dreaming with the tender- ness of the night as our companion. Each night the sleeping space is established at different locations where society is organized at daytime, transforming them into playful, magic visioning grounds at night.

Bring sleeping bag and toothbrush. We have mattresses and sheets for all. There will be a light evening meal and breakfast in the morning.

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CREDITS Theatre Pelle Koppel (Director) Claus Helbo (Scenographer) NOTHING (English) Mikkel Reenberg (Actor) Ane Helene Hovby (Actor) by TEATER V Janne Teller (Playwright) The critically acclaimed stage version of Janne Teller’s award-win- PLAYTIME ning, existential young adult novel about 13-year-old Pierre-Anthon Thursday 31st May 3.00pm who one day declares that there is no meaning to life. Determined Friday 01st June 3.00pm to prove him wrong, his classmates start to give up things of Saturday 02nd June 3.00pm importance and pile them in “the heap of meaning”. As everyone in the class is forced to participate, a scary group dynamic starts VENUE to develop because the more painful the sacrifice is, the more Teater V – Prøvehallen meaning it has… right? Porcelænstorvet 4 2500 Valby NOTHING had its English premiere at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017 where it received great reviews and made it to the highly MORE INFO estimated The Scotsman’s Hot Shows List. www.teater-v.dk

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CREDITS Lars Lindegaard Gregersen (Director & Technician) Antonella Diana (Scenographer & Consultant) Camila Sarrazin (Costume Designer) Sandra Pasini (Consultant) Annemarie Waagepetersen (Consultant) Päivi Eleonoora Raninen (Performer) Moa Asklöf Prescott (Performer) Linnéa Backgård (Performer) Maja Romm (Composer & Musician)

PLAYTIME Thursday 31st May 8.00pm Friday 01st June 8.00pm Saturday 02nd June 4.00pm Saturday 02nd June 8.00pm Sunday 03rd June 2.00pm

VENUE Contemporary circus Slusens Bådbyggeri Ved Slusen 34 OPHAV (Nonverbal) 2300 København by GLIMT & Teatret OM MORE INFO www.glimt.info (presented by Metropolis)

OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE

The crane stands on the quayside, solidly planted – the link between land and sea.

In the company of the crane and its operator we’re allowed to dream about distant horizons and new adventures. And we experience how we receive new opportunities and new people, who come from elsewhere, with curiosity, joy and distrust.

From the harbor, travelers embark into the world. And here we welcome new people and wares coming from foreign regions. The crane leads us up into the heights and all the way down to touch the water, while acrobatics, physical theatre and live music gives soul and energy to this story about our eternal yearning for new horizons.

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CREDITS Performance Boaz Barkan (Playwright, Director & Performer) OUR OTHER BODY (English) Daniel Norback (Dramaturg) by Boaz Barkan PLAYTIME Friday 01st June 1.00pm With brutality and humor, Barkan digs through a living body to Friday 01st June 9.00pm reveal our internalized racism. OUR OTHER BODY is a performance Saturday 02nd June 3.00pm about domination and racism today. It explores how these forces Saturday 02nd June 9.00pm are embodied in us. The performance uses the body as a theater for an intimate, playful and sincere discourse about these critical VENUE influences in our life. Warehouse9 Halmtorvet 11 1711 København V

MORE INFO www.boazbarkan.com

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PLAYTIME Performance Wednesday 30th May at the opening of the Festival – opening starts from (I COULD GO ON SINGING) 4.00pm OVER THE RAINBOW VENUE Warehouse9 (English) Halmtorvet 11 1711 København V by FK ALEXANDER

MORE INFO www.fkalexander.com CURATED OPENING SHOW

Stand hand-in-hand with Glasgow-based performance artist FK Alexander and witness others do the same.

With live accompaniment from noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association, she sings along to the final recording made by Judy Garland of Over the Rainbow, just four months before her death.

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CREDITS Troels Hagen Findsen (Director) Sigurdur Oli Palmason (Scenographer) Jonatan Winbo (Lighting Designer) Rune Vadstrøm Andersen (Artist) Gry Lambertsen (Artist) Camilla Bang (Composer & Musician) Camilla Lind (Costume Designer) Mads Find (Stage constructor)

PLAYTIME Thursday 31st May 2.30pm @ UV Thursday 31st May 7.00pm @ UV Friday 01st June 2.30pm @ UV Friday 01st June 7.00pm @ UV Saturday 02nd June 5.30pm @ HH Saturday 02nd June 10.00pm @ HH

VENUE Dansekapellet, København Bispebjerg Torv 1 2400 København NV

HH Habour House Copenhagen

UV Contemporary circus Unknown venue Copenhagen PLANCK (Nonverbal)

MORE INFO by TINCANCOMPANY www.tincancompany.dk

OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE

PLANCK is a great show in a tiny circus tent. Two quirky artists and a musician will guide you through a kaleidoscopic journey to another dimension. In a ”Twin Peaksesque” mix of rock n´ roll, black humor and death-defying stunts, objects come alive, confused magicians appear out of nowhere, and people fly through the air.

In the absurd microcosmos of PLANCK, you will be so close to the artists that you only need to reach out to touch them.

The performance is set in a custom made circus tent, that can be build up indoors as well as outdoors. We bring all technical equip- ment.

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CREDITS Performance Rabih Mroué (Playwright & Director) Yasser Mroué (Collaborator) RIDING ON A CLOUD Sarmad Louis (Collaborator) Petra Serhal (Assistant director) (Arabic with English Ziad Nawfal (Translator) subtitles) PLAYTIME Wednesday 30th May at the opening of by Rabih Mroué the festival (Unknown time) – opening starts from 4.00pm CURATED OPENING SHOW VENUE Sort/Hvid IN RIDING ON A CLOUD Rabih Mroué examines the personal and po- Staldgade 26-30 litical heritage of conflict and trauma. To this performance he has 1699 København V invited his brother Yasser to play a character that is reminiscent of himself, a person who was injured in the civil war in Lebanon and lost his ability to use words. After that Yasser began making videos as a sort of therapy to regain an understanding of the relationship between reality and representation.

Using these videos, photos and lyrics he weaves a highly personal story. But it is at the same time collective: through Yasser’s story we get a complement to the construction that is our historiography for who’s truth fits into that construction?

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CREDITS Dance Marianne Grønnow (Visual Artist) Jesper Kongshaug (Lighting Designer) SIKU AAPPOQ/MELTING Birgitte Bauer-Nilsen (Choreographer) Thomas Johansen (Contributor) ICE AND SECA/DROUGHT Alexander Montgomery-Andersen (Contributor) (English) Ana Jülia Paiva (Dancer) Carsten Dahl (Composer) by YGGRDASIL DANCE Kim Helweg (Composer) Yggdrasil Dance presents: A performative dance installation in the PLAYTIME meeting between Scandinavian, Greenlandic and Brazilian artists. Thursday 31st May 8.00pm Friday 01st June 8.00pm SIKU AAPPOQ /MELTING ICE AND SECA/ DROUGHT focuses on our relationship with nature. How do we cope with and relate to the VENUE consequences of the global climate change – as Scandinavians, Teaterøen Greenlanders and Brazilians? How do we sense, imagine and William Wain Gade 11 interpret the world around us and how does this affect our notion 1432 København K of chaos and instincts, survival and the future – depending on our cultural heritage and descent? MORE INFO www.yggdrasildance.dk/siku-aappoq The performative dance installation is inspired by the relation to nature as the Inuits and the Indians present it in connection to the modern world.

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CREDITS Lotte Faarup (Playwright & Director) Jeppe Lawaetz (Lighting Designer) Signe Beckmann (Costume Designer & Scenographer Assistant) Jeppe Lawaetz (Scenographer) Bente Nielsen (Seamstress) Jonas Jørgensen (Sound Designer) Øyvind Kirchhoff (Actor) Angelina Watson (Actor) Morten Klode (Actor) Ditte Laumann (Actor) Mireia Serra (Actor) Sofie Ebbesen Nielsen (Actor) James Kjølsen (Technician) Jon Gelting (Constructor)

PLAYTIME Saturday 02nd June 1.00pm Saturday 02nd June 4.00pm Performance VENUE Teaterøen SUGAR (English) William Wain Gade 11 1432 København K by DET OLSKE ORKESTER

MORE INFO We start the story in the 1700s. Danes have traveled out into the www.detolskeorkester.dk/sukker world; hungry for knowledge, longingly and seduced by the foreign, but also greedy for wealth. Slave captain, priest, bookkeeper, doc- tor, planter and the poor ships mate make their entry on the foreign coasts. For centuries sugar from the West Indian slave colonies flowed to Copenhagen and leaves its mark. In 1878, 30 years after the abolition of slavery, hunger and poverty culminate in Denmark’s biggest labor uprising Fireburn on St. Croix. Over 200 black workers are being killed. The insurgency has since disappeared from the Danish history books. Forgotten or displaced?

1. part of Denmark between shame & self-overestimation.

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CREDITS Performance Rasmus Malling Skov (Concept & Performer) TRANSPORTABLE Sara Fink Søndergaard (Concept & Performer) REFUGEES (English)

PLAYTIME by TEATER FLUKS Friday 01st June 4.30pm Friday 01st June 5.30pm Friday 01stJune 7.30pm OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE Saturday 02nd June 4.30pm Saturday 02nd June 5.30pm In the effort to understand how it is to be a refugee, the two per- Saturday 02nd June 7.30pm formers have researched in news, statistics, interviews and their own experiences. This results in an honest and personal recogni- VENUE tion of the fact, that it might never be possible to really understand Kvægtorvet the refugees’ situation. But we can recognize some of the emo- Halmtorvet 11 tions. 1700 København V The performance is a theater-collage situated in the back of a large MORE INFO van, where the audience is sitting inside in the small dark room. www.teaterfluks.dk They’re sharing the space with the performers, with the physical situations, and with thousands of refugees, who through time have been transported in this brutal way.

Be prepared for a physical and sensuous experience.

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CREDITS Dance Stephanie Thomasen (Choreographer) Peter Bodholt Løkke (Lighting Designer) TRO (Nonverbal) Stephanie Thomasen (Dancer) Mark Philip (Dancer) by UPPERCUT DANSETEATER Lukas Larsen (Dancer) Luc Boris André (Dancer) I believe in eternal life. Raphaël Eder Kastling (Dancer) I believe in science. Jens Schyth Brøndum (Dancer) I believe in love. Signe Lykke (Composer) I believe in you.

PLAYTIME Believe makes people come together, but is also the root of count- Thursday 31st May 7.00pm less conflicts. How do we navigate in a world where we find more Friday 01st June 7.00pm and more to believe in everyday? And is it even possible to exist Saturday 02nd June 7.00pm without believing in something? Choreographer Stephanie Thom- Sunday 03rd June 4.00pm asen has created a strong and humorous dance piece about the word believe, that will make you wonder. VENUE Dansekapellet, København Bispebjerg Torv 1 2400 København NV

MORE INFO www.uppercutdance.dk

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CREDITS Theatre Malte Frid-Nielsen (Playwright & performer) THE URBAN HUNT (English) Jeremy Thomas-Poulsen (Director) by Down The Rabbit Hole PLAYTIME Friday 1st June 6.00pm Theatre Saturday 2nd June 6.00pm Inspired by American journalist Brendan Kiley’s article of the same VENUE name, this production concerns the hypocrisy regarding eating Huset-KBH meat without being willing to get your hands dirty by killing an Rådhusstræde 13 animal yourself. 1466 København K To challenge his own hypocrisy, Brendan decides to become a hunter…but rather than venturing out into the wilderness, he brings the hunt into the city, where his prey includes rabbits, squirrels, pigeons, garden snails and more.

Ten years later, Malte Frid-Nielsen is inspired to try to follow in Brendan’s footsteps in the city of Copenhagen. But he’s an actor. And heavy truths are hard when your job consists of making believe. So he brings the hunt into the theatre, where the audience’s imagination can help him catch the elusive prey that he seeks.

This performance is the culmination of two years of research, interviews and practical explorations into the connection between food and death. It seeks to confront our hidden hypocrisies, uncov- er the secret that the city keeps from us, and reveal shocking facts about ducks. Really. There’s a lot you don’t know about ducks.

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CREDITS Gunilla Lind (Choreographer) Kirsten Victoria Lind (Scenographer) Peter Bodholdt Løkke (Lighting Designer) Kristoffer J. Rosing-Schow (Sound Designer) Betina Rex (Dramaturg) Shuli Nordbek Azoulay (Dancer) Katrina Holm (Dancer) Josefine Ibsen (Dancer) Emma Christophersen (Dancer) Esther Haugegaard (Dancer) Kristoffer J. Rosing-Schow (Composer)

PLAYTIME Thursday 31st May 8.30pm Friday 01st June 4.00pm Wednesday 06th June 9.00pm Thursday 07th June 5.00pm Friday 08th June 5.00pm

VENUE Dance Dansekapellet, København Bispebjerg Torv 1 VANITY OF MODERN PANIC 2400 København NV – V.O.M.P. (Nonverbal) MORE INFO www.gunillalinddanseteater.com by GUNILLA LIND DANSE- TEATER

SELECTED FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

Fitter, stronger, tighter and more beautiful… Now, Now, NOW!

The performance VANITY OF MODERN PANIC – V.O.M.P. holds a mirror to our beauty-worshipping society’s botox-stiffened face. How far are you willing to go in order to keep your body younger than what is written on your birth certificate?

Make yourself ready for a silicone pumped dance performance about our hunt for the perfect body. A body proportion twisted comedy about the longing for breasts, thighs and buttocks that would make Kim Kardashian turn pale in jealousy. And a grotesque greeting to the Baroque era’s powdered wigs and delicate soap bubbles in a unique mix of modern dance and physical theatre.

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CREDITS Theatre Michael Wighton (Director) Jens Blegaa (Actor) WHOLE IN THE HEAD Casper Hamalainen (Actor) Johanne Wang-Holm (Playwright & (English) Actor) by SCENE42 PLAYTIME Friday 01st June 4.00pm WHOLE IN THE HEAD brings memory to life on-stage, embodying Saturday 02nd June 5.00pm the mental building blocks that make us who we are. Julia and Sunday 03rd June 6.00pm Hugh are a couple in love. Hugh is older and has been married before, giving his adult son Daniel some meaty bones to pick at about VENUE the shifting family. Julia is a devoted young woman who has found TBC the love of her life. And then Hugh gets a diagnosis. Built upon an interpretation of Alzheimer’s inner workings the play captures the moment where a whole life can slip through one’s hands. How do we stay true, how do we even find reality, when the choices one makes can be rewritten every second?

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CREDITS Theatre Melanie Kretschmann (Director, Dramaturg & Actor) WIR WOLLEN PLANKTON Malakoff Kowalski (Music arranger) Jürgen Kapitein (Lighting Designer) SEIN (German with English Manfred Breuer (Lighting Designer) Yuri Englert (Actor) subtitles) Niklas Kohrt (Actor) Thomas Garvie (Stage Manager) by Schauspiel Köln Nadja Zeller (Costume Designer) Julian Pörksen (Playwright) CURATED OPENING SHOW PLAYTIME Wednesday 30th May 5.00pm An aging diva, her young lover and her equally as young son invite Wednesday 30th May 7.00pm you to an evening filled with exhaustion. They continually take turns in trying to begin, in seeking conflicts, in seeking emotions and VENUE thoughts that can still be reproduced in a world devoted to reflec- Husets Teater tions. They wrap into theory, lose weight in emotions, seek for the Halmtorvet 9 theater and their own role in it, circling ghastly about themselves, 1700 København V sad, sparkling, lovable.

MORE INFO WIR WOLLEN PLANKTON SEIN is a paradoxical meta comedy, a www.schauspiel.koeln rather loud tale of silence, emptiness and tranquility – where a return to plankton is a promising alternative.

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CREDITS Performance Pernille Rübner-Petersen (Performer, Playwright & Composer) BECOMING HUMAN/

PLAYTIME BECOMING WOMAN Sunday 03rd June 4.00pm Sunday 03rd June 5.15pm (English) Sunday 03rdJune 6.15pm Sunday 03rd June 7.15pm by PERNILLE RÜBNER

VENUE PETERSEN Teaterøen William Wains Gade 11 The Little Mermaid enters the world – awkward, vulnerable and 1432 København K longing for love. She tries to become the person, she really is. We all do that. The Mermaid’s terms for being are also ours.

The life of the Mermaid is both a life-affirming and cruel journey into human life as well as into a specific female desire.

The legendary feminist Simone de Beauvoir, summed up in the book The Second Sex (1949): You are not born as a woman, you become one. She demonstrated how being a woman is first and foremost an imposed gender role, which does not necessarily benefit women.

As a human being, the Mermaid has lost her voice, but in this interpretation of her story, the voice will be essential.

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CREDITS Performance installation Sophie Hansen (Costume Designer) Kasper Hansen (Scenographer) COVER (English) Petri Tuhkanen (Lighting Designer) Taneli Törmä (Performer) by LOCATION X Laura Folch (Musician) Esa Mattila (Musician) COVER is a triptych performance installation – a three-piece work Søren Lyngsø Knugsen, Esa Mattila, of art – by LOCATION X. The work originates in the choreographic Laura Folch (Composer) research into sound with the working title: SOUND of DANCE. The audience is brought nearer to the kinaesthetic experience of the PLAYTIME sound process. This creates a strong bodily experience throughout Sunday 03rdJune 12.00pm the journey. Each part of the triptych will take its departure from Sunday 03rd June 3.00pm the respective disciplines of set, costume and music and offers Sunday 03rd June 6.00pm different perspectives on the experience of sound.

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CREDITS Dance Christian Falsnæs (Concept) Martin Forsberg (Concept) FALL (English) Zoé Bernabéu (Dancer) Marco Herløv Høst (Dancer) by CORPUS / The Royal Nastia Ivanova (Dancer) Hazuki Kojima (Dancer) Danish Theatre Pierre Piton (Dancer) Alexander Stæger (Dancer) SELECTED AS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT PLAYTIME Sunday 03rdJune 1.00pm FALL is an interactive piece created by choreographer Martin Sunday 03rd June 3.00pm Forsberg and conceptual artist Christian Falsnæs, conceived to Sunday 03rd June 5.00pm be performed by an audience together with the members of the dance company Corpus. VENUE Corpus, A-salen, Det Kgl. Teater The structure and concept of FALL reflects the collaborative nature Tordenskjoldsgade 10 of this project, as it invites a random audience to join a group of six 1055 København K professional dancers to create a performance together. Ordinary people will physically crash into the setting of a professional dance company where the unexpected physical and psychological reactions of the audience will play a cardinal aesthetic role.

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CREDITS Taneli Törmä (Choreographer) Tine Louise Kortermand (Scenogra- pher) Tine Louise Kortermand (Video De- signer) Aku Raski (Sound Designer) Birgitte Nisbeth (Costume Designer) Sofie Christensen (Instruktørassistent) Tine Louise Kortermand (Concept) Daniel Carlsson (Vocal) Taneli Törmä (Dancer) Tine Louise Kortermand (Performer) Jens Hansen (Belysningsmester) Jesper Pedersen (Lydtekniker) Tine Louise Kortermand (Playwright) Aku Raski og Tine Louise Kortermand (Composer)

PLAYTIME Thursday 07th June 2.00pm Thursday 07th June 10.00pm Performance VENUE Aveny-T NATURE WILD (English) Frederiksberg Allé 102 1820 Frederiksberg C by NORDIC PERFORMANCE

MORE INFO ART www.grob.dk Based on real stories and interviews with returning soldiers and their family members countertenor Daniel Carlsson (S), dancer Ta- neli Torma (FI), electro musician Aku Raski (FI), video- sound- and performance artist Tine Louise Kortermand (DK) tells on cohesion, how it feels to be a stranger in your own family, living in parallel worlds, to sink into the darkness – and reemerge to the surface.

NATURE WILD is a hybrid of documentary video set design, electronic beats, opera, indie, dance and performance art … the body’s own sound in between breaking branches.

Join us when the struggle to return home takes a detour in the human mind and a trip into the wild.

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CREDITS Dance Zoé Bernabéu (Dancer) Marco Herløv Høst (Dancer) ONE ONE ONE (Nonverbal) Nastia Ivanova (Dancer) Hazuki Kojima (Dancer) by CORPUS / The Royal Pierre Piton (Dancer) Alexander Stæger (Dancer) Danish Theatre

PLAYTIME Saturday 09th June 1.00pm SELECTED AS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT Saturday 09th June 1.00pm Two dancers and two chairs. This is the setting in Ioannis Man- VENUE dafounis’ piece ONE ONE ONE. Two members of the audience are Kunsthal Charlottenborg invited to have a seat and will experience a unique performance Kongens Nytorv 1 especially made for them. 1050 København K Ioannis Mandafounis has developed an improvised format, where the dance reflects the human being on the chair. By translating the audiences’ feelings and reactions into movements, Corpus’ dancers present a powerful and awakening experience. The physical and mental engagement with the audience creates an extraordi- nary intimacy. None of the performances will be the same, every dance is distinct from the other.

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CREDITS Helle Fuglsang (Director) Per Buhl Acs (Sound Designer) leo Kristacil (Assistant) Yukka Shahin (Vocal) Taysir Mlitat (Vocal) Ali Hussein Afg. (Performer) Omar Captein Hussein (Performer) Ponija Dumo (Dancer) Natachi Mez (Dancer) Adam Yoqoubi (Dancer) Siri Astrup (Dancer) Anas Samhi (Performer) Mahmoud Snounou (Performer) Iman Samhi (Performer) Gabriel Acs (Vocal) Sabrin Samhi (Performer) Per Buhl Acs (Sound) Helle Fuglsang (Playwright) Per Buhl Acs (Composer) in collaboration with rappers Performance

PLAYTIME PUNCH LINE (English) Friday 08th June 5.00pm Friday 08th June 6.00pm — A MUSICAL DANCE Friday 08th June 7.00pm EXPERIMENT, WHERE VENUE Cph. Muay Thai Bokseklub MUAY THAI BOXING AND Ragnhildgade 1 2100 København Ø DANCE MEET RAP by Wilma Version

The audience is invited into the Muay Thai Boxing Club, where young talents in the field of Muay Thai boxing, dance and rap have gathered to create a new joint expression.

While the boxers and dancers investigate and challenge the boundaries between martial arts and dance, the words battle the rhythms. Beats of words blend with punches and kicks and merge into a larger sound composition created by an electronic composer.

PUNCH LINE is a music theatre experiment where young performers and artists meet as equals and regardless of age, gender, cultural interests and backgrounds kick their way into the public debate. (25 min.)

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CREDITS Performance Lois Weaver (Concept & Performer) Peggy Shaw (Concept & Performer) RETRO (PER)SPECTIVE Jo Palmer (Produktionschef) Hannah Moore (Teknisk chef) (English)

PLAYTIME by Split Britches Thursday 07th June 8.00pm Friday 08th June 7.00pm RETRO(PER)SPECTIVE is a medley of 30 years of Split Britches’ performances that made the politics of gender and sexuality and the VENUE humour of human relations accessible to all ages and persuasions. Warehouse9 Halmtorvet 11 Performed by Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, RETRO(PER)SPECTIVE 1711 København V provides a humorous slant on love, life, work and play and features excerpts from old favourites such as Upwardly Mobile Home, Belle MORE INFO Reprieve, Lesbians Who Kill, Dress Suits to Hire and Anniversary www.warehouse9.dk Waltz as well as material from their newer shows, Lost Lounge and Miss America.

Founded in New York in 1980 with Deb Margolin, Split Britches con- tinues with the duo and solo work of Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw.

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CREDITS Performance Tue Biering (Director) Peter Schultz (Scenographer) ROCKY! — RETURN OF THE Ditlev Brinth (Sound Designer) Mathilde Niemann Hüttel (Lighting LOSER (English) Designer) Morten Burian (Actor) by HUSETS TEATER Tue Biering (Playwright)

PLAYTIME SELECTED AS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT Wednesday 06th June 10.00pm We love them. The losers who against all odds prevail over their VENUE own inferiority, social heritage and their completely unfair loser- Husets Teater life. But what if it’s us, our values and existence which are to be Halmtorvet 9 defeated? If we end up being the losers? 1700 København V ROCKY! completely knocked-out the Danish reviewers and left the MORE INFO audience speechless. www.husetsteater.dk

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CREDITS Emma Kørnøv Bonde (Instruktørassis- tent) Turpin Djurhuus (Lighting Designer) Niels Valentin (Sound Designer) Jakob Højgaard Jørgensen (Idea) Martyna Miller (Idea) Olga Szymula (Idea) Jakob Højgaard Jørgensen (Performer) Martyna Miller (Performer) Marie Egetoft (Production Lead) Berith Ann Christensen (Costume Designer) Theresa Breitenstein (Regissør) John Nyby Larsen (Scenebygger)

PLAYTIME Thursday 07th June 8.00pm Friday 08th June 11.00pm

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Performance SEX IN SITU (English) by TEATER NORDKRAFT

Our sexuality develops through our social life and is part of it. Ex- cept for porn, with all it’s economic interests, we don’t have access to images of others or even ourselves having sex. We hardly have the language to describe our sexuality.

Discussing one night stands, love, family, affairs, we tend to forget that sex is basically a practice developed by each of us over time in contact with other people.

It’s unique to each of us and something we all have in common. Wouldn’t we like to exchange?

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CREDITS Dance Julyan Hamilton (Idea) Tora Balslev Jespersen (Consultant) SPEECH(LESS) (English) Jakob Agermose Pedersen (Other) Annika Kompart (Dancer) by ANNIKA KOMPART Rikke Ørnskov (Sceneassistent) Annika Kompart (Playwright) SPEECH(LESS) is dancing to the rhythms of different languages, based on New Years Speeches. PLAYTIME Sunday 03rd June 4.00pm SPEECH(LESS) is a development of the performance solo timing, a Sunday 03rd June 5.15pm dance fairytale to the rhythm of Angela Merkels New Years Speech Sunday 03rd June 6.15pm and now also to the Danish Queen Maragaret’s New years speech Sunday 03rd June 7.15pm 2017-18.

VENUE The piece is inspired by a workshop by Julyan Hamilton about Teaterøen rhythm and placement in time.The rhythm as frame to articulate William Wains Gade 11 movements. 1432 København K

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CREDITS Dance Katrine Wiedemann (Director) Maja Ravn (Scenographer) THE WINTER’S TALE Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (Actor) Mikkel Arndt (Actor) (Texted) Christiane Gjellerup (Actor) Cyron Melville (Actor) by Østerbro Teater

ALL PLAY TIMES The Reumert prize nominated play, WINTER’S TALE is back! Thursday 31st May 7.30pm Friday 01st June 7.30pm Look forward to see Shakespeare’s fairytale WINTER’S TALE! King Saturday 02nd June 4.00pm Leontes and Queen Hermione enjoy time with their beloved friend, Tuesday 05th June 7.30pm Polixenes. A warm and playful relation characterizes the three Wednesday 06th June 7.30pm of them, but all of a sudden King Leontes is hit by a destructive Thursday 07th June 7.30pm jealousy. He is convinced that his wife has cheated on him with Friday 08th June 7.30pm Polixenes. King Leontes commands his nobleman Camillo to kill Saturday 09th June 4.00pm Polixenes. Camillo and Polixenes succeed to flee, but Queen Her- mione is thrown in jail, where she gives birth to a girl. King Leontes VENUE refuses to own the daughter and the infant’s destiny is entrusted to Republique higher powers.. Østerfælled Torv 37 2100 København Ø

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