SPLENDID

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Written, Directed by: Shade Théret & Magdalena Mitterhofer
Performers: Ivan Cheng, Shade Théret, Magdalena Mitterhofer
Dramaturgy: Marie Stolze

Premiere: 12–13 September 2020, LONGTANG Zürich 
curated by Ludovica Parenti
Additional showing: 19 September 2020, Very, Berlin 
invited by Mariechen Danz

Photos (Zürich): André Simonov
Photo Poster: Valeria Herklotz
Video (Berlin): Emma Dudlyke

Splendid is a chamber play that explores the theme of decay.
Three guests at a bathhouse touch upon topics such as anger, work, loss, and intimacy in their conversations, all the while surrounded by slowly crumbling architecture. The water that sweeps through the house becomes an activating element in their encounters. The title is derived from Marie Redonnet’s Hotel Splendid, a novella about a woman’s futile efforts to operate an inherited hotel in a moorland landscape.

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