Eva Meyer-Keller

In her production ›Pulling Strings‹ first presented last year at PACT Zollverein and now returning as part of the programme of the puppet theatre festival FIDENA, artist Eva Meyer-Keller quite literally takes the strings into her own hands: Against a musical backdrop of well known compositions including Prokofiev’s ›Romeo and Juliet‹ or Strawinsky’s ›Sacre du Printemps‹, an eclectic cast of commonplace and normally unseen theater objects such as gaffer tape, extension cables, microphones, a bucket, tea bags, or a broom all begin to develop a life of their own at the hands of the performers. Although the mechanics are simple and plain to see, the result is a unique feat of imagination and magical intricacy.

Idea: Eva Meyer-Keller

Realised in collaboration with: Tomas Fredriksson, Irina Müller, Sybille Müller, Benjamin Schälicke

Pully system: Florian Bach, Ruth Waldeyer

Production management: Susanne Beyer

Production: Eva Meyer-Keller

Co-production: Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), MDT (Stockholm)

Funding: Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Support: PACT Zollverein (Essen)

Thanks to: Andrea Keiz, Thomas Medowcroft, Rico Repotente

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