BarlettiWaasAntigone

It's about questions that are difficult to answer clearly. About inner and common values. About the role of community for each of us. About duties that cannot be avoided. "Antigone" has been raising questions for millennia. Especially in times of crisis it seems necessary to remember the conflict between Creon and Antigone, between Antigone and Ismene, between Creon and Hemon. The conflict is about power and responsibility, about resistance and guilt, about compassion and hybris. It is about a vision of the world that does not finish with the present. It is about women and men, war and reconciliation, past and future, language and incomprehension, body and mind, life and death. It's about the need for theater. All of this is the content of the play Antigone, but it is just as relevant for our situation. Our project is about finding a way how we can continue to explore the above-mentioned topics with our specific language (a living theater in front of a living audience). Is there really a need for what we do among people who could support us? We ask ourselves this question every day, and not only since yesterday. Can we bring this public discourse and dialogue into people's homes, question us together?

Our goal is to organize as many performances as possible in as many apartments as possible in Berlin and other European cities. Our target group is our audience and people / friends who could connect with our theater in this particolar way.

As Barletti / Waas, we are part of that off-theater scene in Berlin that can rely on little to no support from public funds and relies on live-performances and income from ticket selling to survive. We have an average of between twenty and thirty performances per year, which, depending on the venue and the contract, bring us each between 200 and 2500 euros. All of this is now no longer possible for us and for our colleagues, and there is no real alternative in sight. If you don't know us yet or would like to follow our work more closely, you can find information about our plays and past performances on our website (http://www.barlettiwaas.eu). Crowdfunding is a possibility for us (and also for our colleagues: musicians, technicians, employees) to make it possible that the theater, as we conceive it, continues as an encounter with an audience despite the current crisis. It is a perspective, and that is exactly what we are currently missing most. So if you are interested in the utopian space of social debate by means of theater and would like to organize a performance at your home, you have a concrete possibility to implement it.

We pay for our rehearsal work, the creation of a new translation, the development of a performance conceived to be presented in a living room including surtitles in both languages ​​and give the financiers a free performance at home.