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International Festival: The Theatre - The Announcement

Confetti Urbanism, Architecture of Happiness

After the successful marking of Karmeliter Platz on the 18th of June The Theatre now set off a series of events building up to the main act, the opening the 21 September 2007. Meet up for a participatory midnight event, in order to make Graz wake up a happier place.

The announcement is first out as The Theatre reveals itself to Graz by spreading its logo throughout the city. The world of advertisement is it poster, the action to customise the city’s posters with confetti. The Theatre adds a bit of colour and joie de vivre, claims the world of marketing, and adds a bit of confetti to everybody’s life. This is no street theatre its about making the street a stage, an urbanist mis-en-scène proposing an architecture of happiness.

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Confetti is our logo and The Theatre gives you the licence to spread it. On 13 July 23.30 we gather at Karmeliter Platz to, like reversed pathfinders, invite the city to come find us. Like Hänsel und Gretel we’ll wake up a Graz covered in confetti.

As The Theatre’s team cover every poster and billboard in the city with our logo, you can follow the adventure from the head quarters at Karmeliter Platz, where The Theatre will be throne during Steirischer Herbst. Information and drink will be available, and we will finish off with classical Swedish night-food.

The Project

The Theatre, commissioned by the festival Steirischer Herbst in Graz, is an autonomous project consisting of a fully functioning theatre building that during three years will be touring to different cities in Europe.

The Theatre is an actual building that will be programmed locally through local means. It will be used as a season theatre, festival theatre/centre and education platform, and accommodate both performances, office, bar restaurant, studio space etc.

The Theatre is constructed with unconventional materials to decrease effort of transportation etc. but also to research alternative economies and the uses and needs of contemporary theatre structures.

International Festival The Theatre will appear in Graz, London, Montpellier, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, in collaboration with prominent local institutions.

International Festival is a Stockholm based collaborative project platform initiated by the architect Tor Lindstrand and the choreographer Mårten Spångberg. It includes approximately 50 artists, architects and thinkers from eleven European countries. International Festival creates project between architecture and performance, between art and the staging of social contexts.

The Theatre will premiere during Steirischer Herbst 2007 and accommodate performances by among others BAK-truppen, Nature Theater of Oklahoma and Poelstra/Stein. The Theatre’s own crew will create surprise events, bubbles and glitter.

With and By: Jonathan Allen (GB), BADCo / Ivana Ivkovic, Tomislaw Medak, Nikolina Pristas, Sergej Pristas (HR), Alice Chauchat (D/F), Marcus Doverud (S), Max Frey (A), Moa Hanssen (S), Yngve Holen (N/D), Mario Höber (A), INPEX (S), Kein.org (D), Kira Kirsch (A/D), Sonia Leimer (A), Xavier Le Roy (D/F), Tor Lindstrand (S), Annette Lundebye (N/GB), Florian Malzacher (A/D), Liz McAlpine (GB), Ulrike Melzwig (D), Yves Mettler (CH), Martin Miljard (CH), Moderna Dansteatern (S), Marlie Mul (NL), Platforma 9.81 / Damir Blasevic, Marco Sancanin (HR), School of Architecture Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (S), Christine Sbaschnigg (A), Hermann Schapek (A), Support Structure (GB) / Celine Condorelli (I), Mårten Spångberg (S), Tensta Konsthall (S), Testbedstudio / Anders Johansson, Erik Wingquist (S), UglyCute (S), Unfriendly Takeover (D), WELD (S), Janica Wiklander (S), Josefine Wikström (S), Siegmar Zacharias (D/RO)

The Theatre opens at Steirischer Herbst 21 September 2007.