Far A Day Cage

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Far A Day Cage (FADC) is a Zurich based performance and theater company that was founded in 2004 by theater director Tomas Schweigen and actress Vera von Gunten .

history

After initial projects such as "Oneweekstand" and "Oneweekstand reloaded" or "Parzivality Show", the group realized the American project "Odysseus' Slide Evening Special" as part of the directing platform "Freischwimmer 2004". Reise developed, was after its premiere in the Sophiensaele Berlin a . a. can also be seen in Hamburg , Zurich, Düsseldorf , Mannheim and Vienna and laid the foundation for a continuous collaboration with the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich as a co-production house and artistic home port. This was followed by a commissioned work for the Schiller Festival in Weimar: "Polizey", based on the fragment of the same name by Friedrich Schiller , won the Swiss Premio award in 2005 and, after its premiere in Weimar, was also shown in Zurich.

Other works included the casting show project "Titaniamania", "Gang Bang. An operating manual for successful work in a collective", "X Store", "Nothing Company" and Pate I-III ", all of which are part of the program of international festivals in Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland, among others at " Politics in free theater ", "Spielart München", "Auawirleben", "transeuropa", "Festival Impulse", "Festival AusFlugHafenSicht / Theater der Welt 08", "Festival" Premières "and" Völker hears the signals ".

From 2009 to 2011, FADC received continuous group funding from the Presidential Department of the City of Zurich. In this context, the projects "Godfather I-III", "MyState" and "Hamlet. Subsequent audience discussion", tours led the company in these three seasons and the like. a. to Vienna, Basel , Bern , Lucerne , Düsseldorf, Bochum , Munich , Jena , Berlin and Liechtenstein . FADC regularly co-produced with Kaserne Basel , WUK Vienna , HAU Berlin and FFT Düsseldorf - within the framework of "MyState", a permanent repertoire theater ( Theaterhaus Jena ) and a permanent ensemble were collaborated for the first time.

The work "Urwald" premiered on June 2, 2012 in Zurich and was subsequently shown in Frankfurt am Main (Lüften Festival / Mousonturm), Basel (International Theater Festival Basel / Kaserne), Berlin ( HAU ) and Hanover ( Festival Theaterformen ) .

From 2012 to 2015 Far A Day Cage was group in residence at Theater Basel ; Tomas Schweigen was co-acting director and in-house director there. Some of the group members moved to the Schauspielhaus Wien in 2015 , where Tomas Schweigen has been artistic director since the 2015/2016 season.

literature

  • Franziska Schößler, Christine Bahr (ed.): Economy in the contemporary theater. Aesthetics, production, institution . Transcript Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1060-4 , pp. 101 ff
  • The Swiss formation FAR A DAY CAGE wants to make the world a better place, but don't forget to play , Theater heute, June, 2010, p. 10

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schauspielhaus Wien: Tomas Schweigen becomes artistic director . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed January 4, 2018]).