Remaining Strangers is the final work in a series that reflects on the notion of the ‘stranger’.

In Remaining Strangers we acknowledge the strangeness inherent in every individual, the stranger within and the emancipatory possibility of always remaining curious of the other. A commitment to remaining strangers fosters relations that are durable: the other can never be fully known, our knowledge of the other is never finished.

Those present get involved in recognisable social situations like a dinner party with a DJ and toasting farewell to the things that we have already lost. Using only foldable chairs and microphones, the artists Jen Rosenblit and Nic Lloyd, together with the musician Hahn Rowe, prepare and host an ever-changing event to welcome their guests, highlighting our infinite differences and limitations.

Credits

Performance & Creation: Jen Rosenblit, Gary Wilmes / Nic Lloyd
Concept & Direction: Simone Aughterlony
Music: Hahn Rowe
Light design: Joseph Wegmann
Dramaturgical advice: Saša Božic, Jorge León, Felipe Ribeiro
Stage design: Thibault van Craenenbroeck
Costume: Nathalie Pallandre, Thibault van Craenenbroeck
Mask: Nagi Gianni
Stage manager: Jan Olieslagers
Technical manager: Marie Prédour
Production management: Sina Kiessling
Production: Verein für allgemeines Wohl / Imbricated Real
Co-production HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Gessnerallee (Zurich)
Supported by: City of Zurich, Canton of Zurich Culture, Prohelvetia – Swiss Cultural Foundation, Goethe-Institut London,
Migros-Kulturprozent, SIS – Swiss Interpreten Foundation, Anne-Marie Schindler Foundation, The Invisible Dog Art Center – New York, NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ – Co-production fund for dance, funded by the federal government commission for culture and media.

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In How Did I Die, time cannot be trusted: neither the period from the discovery of the body to a possible conclusion, nor the possible final hours of the deceased. Nothing is certain. Time and truth are manipulated, conspiracy theories revised. The truth is a complex puzzle in which our fantasies can be gruesomely real or unreal. Just one murder has taken place, but there are countless paths that could have led to it. Does the reconstruction bring us closer to the truth, or does it push us further away? How Did I Die is a realistically fictional, cinematic, physical production. Particularly suitable for those who love a good thriller.

See How Did I Die as part of our Gala Opening double bill alongside Justin Shoulder’s Carrion at Warwick Arts Centre on Tuesday 15th October. Our special price double bill ticket includes a free return bus leaving Birmingham at 6pm from Minerva Works and returning after the last show. Double bill ticket available here.

Please note Warwick Arts Centre is in Coventry and not walkable from the other Birmingham venues.

Script, Direction & Set Design – Davy Pieters
Performance – Klára Alexová Nina Fokker Alexei Ovsiannikov
Sound Design – Jimi Zoet
Lighting Design & Technical Support – Bob Ages
Coaching – Marc Linssen Jetse Batelaan Loes van der Pligt
Photography – Roy Soetekouw
Producing – Theater Rotterdam and Frascati Producties