EXISTENCE THEATRE

  • THE WITCH AND THE GOAT

    THE WITCH AND THE GOAT

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    a postmodern fairytale about destiny – written, directed, video and sound by bello benischauer ABOUT THE PIECEHarness your imagination! Fear meets truth, and social isolation confronts you with the darker side of mythical creatures. Don’t be fooled by what you see, as something else lurks behind you already. And what you hear is not necessarily what…

  • LONELY MARS

    LONELY MARS

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    Power | Guilt | Sacrifice | Isolation | Preserve Humankind: Are YOU a chosen one? This video gives insight into LONELY MARS, a strongly physical and emotionally energetic performance that engaged with audiences on various levels. While reconnecting to images of mothers of heroes and fallen troops, collective emotions and the archetypes of good and…

  • STORMWATER

    STORMWATER

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    Label. Stigma. Separation. Family Secrets. Hurt: The past cannot be denied. This video gives insight into STORMWATER, a contemporary play about gender equality, diversity and cultural tolerance. Two people in love, brother and sister, face the accusation of incest within their own family. A whole new world of societal boundaries evolves. Four protagonists dared to…

  • FIRST THINGS FIRST

    FIRST THINGS FIRST

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    Fears and anxieties are according to research and media reports on the increase in our society, and the discussion of “where does emotional/verbal/physical abuse really start” reaches new hights. It leaves us with a lot of questions of how to actually deal with other people sensibly enough. The piece explores which struggles we face in…

  • TRESPASSING

    TRESPASSING

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    Based on four different female characters, who speak in their text lines about the complexity of gender linked to identity, social interaction, power and oppression; about the interaction of gender with other things like race, class, culture, religion, sexuality and consumerism. In monologues, as separated beings, they give insight into their contradicting but daily routines.…

  • THREE SECRETS

    THREE SECRETS

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    Returning to WA after successful productions overseas the EXISTENCE THEATRE (AUS/AT) invites you to immerse yourself in emotionally guided situations that comment on the many secrets that we hold on to. In this not to be missed performance boundaries between performers and audience collapse. Three characters touch on issues concerning their own gender, expressing how…

  • HOTEL GUTMANN

    HOTEL GUTMANN

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    The genre of the hotel occurs in many theatre plays, novels and films. With the Existence Theatre we approach this topic performatively and interact with our audience by trying to reach different levels of perception. We simulate situations in a hotel, a location, where we meet other individuals/strangers and hear their voices. While intentionally or…

  • FASSADE

    FASSADE

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    Performative play in five scenes for seven performers: autumn in 2242. Everything that exists is already history and there are visions of a morning, which is somehow already there, individually but differently, because everyone has his own ideas about tomorrow. Transcultural entity connects the many worlds of view and life styles of people around the globe.…

  • DOMESTIC ROOM

    DOMESTIC ROOM

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    household space, also relating to one’s own or a particular country apart from other countries, indigenous to or produced or made within one’s own country; not foreign; native, no longer wild; also as a pattern of behaviour, which involves violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting. ENGLISH | GERMAN | PERFORMANCES | VIDEOS | PHOTOS ENGLISH Elisabeth Eitelberger as…

  • FRÜHLING DER FANTASIE

    FRÜHLING DER FANTASIE

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    english: REVIVING THE IMAGINATION Do we really connect with our inner selves, others and our surroundings and to which extent? At which point get self-critical explorations just an ordinary habit and is the everyday judgemental behaviour of others our entertainment and diversion, so that we must not take a closer look and can ignore our…

  • THE PREVENTION

    THE PREVENTION

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    PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts) residency 2015 THE PREVENTION: LOCATING MODERN IDENTITY with a Temporary Ensemble Working on a creative process in the studio and in some of Perth’s public locations, for further development of the Existence Theatre practice during a residency at PICA from 16 February to 8 April 2015 WORK PROCESS | PERFORMANCE TEXT | PHOTOS |…

  • RUN AWAY SOCIETY

    RUN AWAY SOCIETY

    The documentation in video and photography shows an insight into the live performance in public space, a collaboration between Delaney Harper (USA) and bello benischauer (AUS/A) in Fremantle, Australia, imitating signs and objects when exploring how we people tend to fit into urban environments, their structures and landscapes around us and how small disruptions of…