BORIS NIKITIN (CH): IMITATION OF LIFE

18 & 19/9/2013 at 20:00&TD Big Hall

Duration: 80 min / Free entrance

CULTURESCAPES IN STUDENT CENTRE, theatre performance

In collaboration with CULTURESCAPES BALKAN 2013. FESTIVAL AND SWISS ARTS COUNCIL PROHELVETIA, www.culturescapes.ch

Fake diaries, fake images, fake secret service reports, fake scientific protocols, fake biographies, fake documents – at some point they were all believed to be real. Only when they were revealed to be fakes did it become clear that reality can deceive. Boris Nikitin thinks about fiction and reality in a documentary show about fraud, manipulation and the power of affirmation. Two actors and a counterfeiter are the central figures in this play. They are imitators who are able to impersonate somebody else. Imitation of Life is a theatrical balancing act between certainty and uncertainty about information. A profound piece which points to the origin of our suspicion that things might not be what they appear to be.

Live Art Festival 2012 – Boris Nikitin with Malte Scholz & Beatrice Fleischlin – Imitation of Life – 30 November 2012 – Short from GIPCA@UCT on Vimeo.

Concept and direction: Boris Nikitin

From and with: Beatrice Fleischlin, Malte Scholz

Stage design: PanteraPantera / Thomas Wüthrich, Jens Müller

Dramaturgy: Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt

Lights and sound: Matthias Meppelink

Management: Boris Brüderlin / Paraform Produktionen

A co-production with Treibstoff Theatertage Basel, Kaserne Basel and Hebbel am Ufer Berlin

With the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.