Melancholia of the tourist

Oligor y Microscopía

Mexico/Spain
Th 07.11.2024, 8:15 PMBuy tickets Fr 08.11.2024, 6:00 PM, Sold out Fr 08.11.2024, 9:00 PM, Sold out Waschhaus, Schiffbauergasse 6 Price category A (21 euros / concessions: 14 euros) (Evening box office: +2 euros) Documentary Object Theatre, 90 minutes, in Spanish with German surtitles. Unfortunately not fully accessible for people with disabilities.

Melancholia of the tourist is a small theatre-cum-cinema with a thick layer of patina, a dream-play of gentle things that appear only briefly in the flickering light: old postcards and photographic slides, old machines, fragile mechanisms, miniatures of paper and tin. Based on research in Cuba and the fashionable Mexican beach resort Acapulco, the dreamy illusions that make holiday destinations appear like a kind of paradise are gleefully deconstructed. Behind the façade, the harsh realities of those who live there are all too often ignored. And we are prompted to ask ourselves why we long for something that never really existed.

Oligor y Microscopía is a collaboration between Jomi Oligor (Hnos. Oligor) and Shaday Larios (Microscopía Teatro) that began in 2013. Their common fascination with mechanical toys, machines, and objects involving light and sound inspired them to develop poetic research methods into the memory of things. This gave rise to their current production in 2019, in which fiction and reality become fused in an atmosphere of incomparable intimacy between performers and the audience.

Co-production with Iberescena, Temporada Alta, Grec Festival de Barcelona, Le Parvis Scène Nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées, Patronato Municipal de las Artes Escénicas y de la Imagen de Zaragoza, Pyrenart.Interreg POCTEFA

Creation, performance Shaday Larios, Jomi Oligor Poetic collaboration Ángel Hernández Creative collaboration Ivan Puig, Jordi Fondevila Music and sound design Suetszu & Jayrope Drawings Pepe Oligor Translation surtitles Miriam Denger

Photo Oligor y Microscopía | Shaday Larios

Kindly supported by Waschhaus Potsdam

Ensembles


1 drop 1000 years
14 lieux/Martin Messier – Canada
Utopia
AKHE – Russia
PERTO
Company Portmanteau – Finland
Prefaby
D. Migač & J. Maksymov – Czechia
After us, the future
kraut_produktion – Switzerland
ZugZwang
Lauro – Italy/France/Germany
OI+IO
Müller&Müller – Switzerland/Germany/France
Melancholia of the tourist
Oligor y Microscopía – Mexico/Spain
F*cking Beautiful Spring
Spitfire Company – Czechia
Summer '69
Tof Théâtre – Belgium
03:08:38 States of Emergency
Transiteatret-Bergen – Norway
Concert
fraen – Germany
Concert
Kommuna Lux – Ukraine
Concert
Tanga Elektra – Germany

Contact

Address

T-Werk, Internationales Theater- und Theaterpädagogikzentrum
Schiffbauergasse 4 E, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

Telefon

Phone: +49 331 73042626
Fax: +49 331 73042633