Crash Course Chit Chat is a piece for five performers, representing five European nations: Germany, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium. It is based, on the one hand, on the performers’ testimonies and stories about their homelands, families and personal lives, and, on the other, on historical facts, clichés and prejudices relating to nationality. Crash Course Chit Chat employs documentary strategies to explore the relationship between personal identity and the shared European identity. Playing within a loosely defined framework the performers take part in various task-based situations, games and linguistic exercises. Their aim? To establish which nation is most European. Challenging each other and their own assumptions about what it means to live in Europe today, they are bound to face up to what separates them and to what is it that they all share. PREMIERE - 2nd of April 2012 – Theater aan het Spui, The Hague
Crash Course Chit Chat is produced by: Stand Up Tall Productions, Amsterdam and co-produced by: Théâtre La Comédie, Reims and Festival Reims Scenes D’Europe; Huis a/d Werf and Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht; Theater Instituut Nederland.
Supported by Nederlandse Fond voor de Podiumkunst, SNS Reeal Fonds, Amsterdamse Fond voor de Kunst, VSB Fonds and BNG Bank Nederland
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