TRUST - TRIGGER THEATERFESTIVAL

Czech-German co-production for the theater festival TRIGGER - Nuremberg Festival for
Politics and Human Rights in Theater and Performance

Final presentation of the 6-day festival workshop. With a view to current problems (European right-wing populism, increasing social injustice and hostility to democracy, increase in mental illness), "TRUST" creates utopias for peaceful and respectful coexistence with the participants. How do we learn to tolerate other opinions and ways of life? Who decides on the rules of coexistence? The international team teaches various theater techniques with which the participants develop autobiographical performances.

Archa Theater:
The ARCHA Center for Documentary Theater sees itself as an enabling space for artists* from various disciplines who use theatrical means to address social/political problems in society. The focus is on the biographies and realities of the people involved.
The Archa Theater is a center for contemporary stage art without regard to genre boundaries. Since its foundation in 1994, Archa has established a firm place for itself in the national and international progressive scene with its unique dramaturgy and innovative projects. It sees itself as a production house that offers artists space for their creative work. Over the past 25 years, Archa has brought on board renowned personalities from the world of art such as Robert Wilson, Min Tanaka, Wim Vandekeybus, Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, Royal Shakespeare Company, Cheek By Jowl, Ultima Vez, DV8 - Physical Theatre, Dogtroep, Forced Entertainment, Lola Arias, Rimini Protokoll, Pieter De Buysser, Milo Rau, Wen Hui and many others. Projects by young artists are conceived and developed as part of the Archa.lab and its residencies. The International Summer School of Theater serves as a platform for experimentation and research in the field of documentary theater. The Archa Theater International Summer School is a platform for experimentation and research in the field of documentary theater. The summer school offers artists from all over the world a two-week period of free experimentation with the tools of documentary theater.
The Center for Documentary and Society-Specific Theater was established in 2022 at the Archa Theater. The center encompasses and connects the current artistic activities of the Archa Theater.
One of Archa's flagship events is the Akcent International Festival for Documentary Theater.

More information about the group: https://www.archadoku.cz/

Production team:
Jana Svobodová (CZ) - Artistic Director (Czech Republic), Director

Odrej Hrab (CZ) - dramaturgy

Sofía Vélez (GB) - Assistance Jana Svobodová, British performer

Martin Krupa (CZ) - video design

Pavel Kotlík (CZ)- lighting design

Production team Germany: Jörg René Hundsdorfer, Martin Fürbringer, Claudia Schulz

With the kind support of the German-Czech Future Fund and the Office for International Relations, Nuremberg