100% Marseille
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100% Marseille

Von Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

For statistical purposes, people are regularly converted into pie wedges, bars and curves – which are then used to make political arguments or to create economic cost-benefit strategies. What if these statistics were given faces? What if Marseille’s population was represented on stage by 100 persons?
In a world bombarded with ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’ this cross-section of the society could tell the truth of modern Marseille’s life in a way graphs or pie-charts never could. Spreading throughout the city over three months ago, 100% Marseille began with the casting of one member who had to recruit another in 24 hours, who then recruited another and so on – all according to specific criteria of age, gender, household type, geography and ethnicity mirroring the demographic make-up France most important port city.
100% Marseille - a gathering that is a city, a group just beginning to experience itself, a choir that has never practiced, an impossible entity with many faces – assembled into ever-changing new group pictures: group pictures as replacement for family – as fleeting portraits of belonging. Who is missing? Who thinks they might give answers on stage that are different from the ones they’d give in response to a telephone survey or in the voting booth? And what have the statistics failed to record? Who lives in a completely different Montréal? Who thinks that this city is different because they are a part of it?

Concept: Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel

Direction: Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel

Sound design: Frank Böhle

Stage design: Mascha Mazur, Marc Jungreithmeier
Technical director/ Lighting and projection design: Marc Jungreithmeier