100% Paris

Von Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

5% of the population in Paris is over 65, 27% are 25 – 34 of age, 5% of the population have a passport from another EU-country, 85% are recorded to be French, 8 % are single mothers or fathers and 17% live as couple with children....

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 Paris’s 2 243 833 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 Paris life in a way graphs or pie-charts never could. Spreading throughout the city over five months, 100% Paris 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 of Franc’s capital.

100% Paris – 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 Paris? Who thinks that this city is different because they are a part of it?

Concept: Rimini Protokoll (Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel)
Direction: Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel
Stage Design Adaption: Andreas Mihan, Mascha Mazur,
Technical Director/ Lighting and projection design: Andreas Mihan
Research and Casting: Louise Barseghian

Band: Callefaccion

Termine

Paris, Parc de la Villette

16.05. – 18.04.2014

23. – 25.05.2014

aktuelle Termine / alle Termine

Dokumentation

Andere Sprachen

100 % Paris - Critiques presse
Marie Plantin
19.05.2014 / spectacles premiere