How do you prepare the ground for a massacre like the one which took place in Rwanda in 1994? The Swiss writer and director Milo Rau, who creates a new form of political theatre that faithfully reconstructions key episodes in recent history, explains.
The Nazi regime prepared deportations of Jews with the same cold attention to detail used for goods transport. Similarly, it is possible to prepare for a massacre as if one were organising an advertising campaign. That is exactly what Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTML) did. The Rwandan radio station broadcasted messages of hate against the Tutsi minority in the country in a campaign that ended with the murder of one million people. Between pop music and sports broadcasts, a faithful reconstruction of these broadcasts will reveal how it is possible to veer suddenly from a normal situation to one of barbarity. Or, to put it another way, from a chart hit to an incitement to murder.
A dramatic documentary created by a theatre company based in Berlin and Munich. The International Institute of Political Murder previously shone the spotlight on the execution of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu (“The Last Hours of Elena and Nicolae Ceaucescu”) and recently staged the most important political trials that have taken place in Russia in the last decade, including the case brought against Pussy Riot (“The Moscow Trials”). It is theatre, but it is one hundred per cent real.
Autoria: Milo Rau; Posada en escena: Milo Rau; Dramatúrgia: Jens Dietrich; Intèrprets: Afazali Dewaele, Sébastien Foucault, Estelle Marion, Nancy Nkusi, Diogène Ntarindwa (Atome); Escenografia i vestuari: Anton Lukas; Disseny de so: Jens Baudisch; Vídeo: Marcel Bächtiger; Producció: Milena Kipfmüller; Dramatúrgia i gestió conceptual: Milena Kipfmüller; Assistència: Mascha Euchner-Martinez; Producció executiva local: Velvet Events; Col·laboració: Eva-Maria Bertschy; Fotografia: Daniel Seiffert;
