DATE AND VENUE

14.05.2016, 20.30
15.05.2016, 15.00
15.05.2016, 20.30
Zorlu PSM Stüdyo

Lasts app. 120’; no intermission.

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL MURDER

• Concept, Text & Directed by: Milo Rau
• Dramaturgy & Production: Jens Dietrich, Milena Kipfmüller
• Assistant Director: Mascha Euchner-Martinez
• Set & Costume Design: Anton Lukas
• Video: Marcel Bächtiger
• Sound: Jens Baudisch
• Performers: (live) Afazali Dewaele, Sébastien Foucault, Diogène Ntarindwa, Bwanga Pilipili; (video) Estelle Marion, Nancy Nkusi

French and Kinyarwanda with Turkish surtitles.

The project Hate Radio returns RTLM (Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines) to the airways in a reconstructed backdrop that remains faithful to the original. Central to the project is the replay of an RTLM show, run by its hosts: three Hutu extremists and the white Italian-Belgian Georges Ruggiu. How racism functions, how human beings are “talked out of” their humanity? An instillation reconstructed by the author and director Milo Rau from documents and witness statements provides the answers to these questions so that people can feel and experience these happenings for themselves. During performances, the walls of the radio studio, which were built to match the original, turn into projection surfaces for a complex video installation with the selected stories of former perpetrators and victims. Here, the audience is confronted with the consequences of racist mind-sets. In doing so, Hate Radio demands that audience members be observers at the centre of the inner circle, at the centre of racist thought so to speak. Simultaneously it makes them the suffering witnesses of its destructive and inextinguishable consequences.

After the Play: Q&A with performers (14 May)