ANNA MENDELSOHN - Amazon–River Deep

Wed 26. Oct. 2016 - 18.00 TQW / Studios
Thu 27. Oct. 2016 - 18.00 TQW / Studios
Fri 28. Oct. 2016 - 18.00 TQW / Studios
Sat 29. Oct. 2016 - 18.00 TQW / Studios

This is Sophie’s last session at shopaholics anonymous. Sophie is not only a shopaholic, she also suffers under techno-stress, data asphyxiation, information fatigue syndrome, cognitive overload, and time famine. She has decided to leave it all behind, to disconnect from the grid, return to the jungle, unplug and connect with nature. She is going to the Amazon….

Amazon-River Deep is a modern fable. It’s one woman’s story about life in an age in which the Internet has lost its narrative of equal access and sharing and has become dominated by winner-take-all companies that are now monopolizing vast swaths of our information economy.

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ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Anna Mendelssohn
TEXT: Anna Mendelssohn and Yosi Wanunu
DIRECTING: Yosi Wanunu
PERFORMANCE: Anna Mendelssohn
LIGHTS: Jan Maertens
PRODUCTION: Bernhard Seyringer for Miss Amen
COPRODUCTION: Tanzquartier Wien
SUPPORTED BY: Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien MA 7 and bm:ukk

Anna Mendelssohn (1976) studied Acting in the UK. Since 2004 she is a member of the Vienna based theatre company toxic dreams in Vienna and has performed in over 20 of their productions. She has also worked with numerous other directors and choreographers such as David Mayaan (Schauspielhaus Wien), André Turnheim (Landestheater Linz), SUPERAMAS and others. In her own works she explores parallels between private-individual and global-political events such as climate change, war, love, the future and economics. She is especially interested in the role of language and rhetorics. Her works include Cry Me A River (2010), which received the actor’s prize at the Impulse Festival 2011, the Jury prize and Coproduction prize at Arena Festival 2010; art for a lonely heart (2011); The Rise and Fall (2011); The Furious Ballade of Folk (2012); WHAT ? (2013), Here and Now (2013), Ein Herbst eine Jugend (2014), Frozen Eggs - Feminism and the Bauchgefühl (2015) and “Nietzsche and I” (2015).
www.annamendelssohn.net

Yosi Wanunu is a director and author who studied art history, theatre and film in Israel, Europe and the US. On his several years of world-wide working journeys he trained in many playing and staging techniques and styles. Before he moved to Vienna, in 1997, he lived and worked for eight years in New York, among others at the BCBC, the Ohio Theatre, La Mama ETC, in the Here and in Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theatre. He is the cofounder and artistic director of the label Toxic Dreams¸ with which since 1998 he has realised more than sixty of his own productions (most recently There’s a Rumble in the Jungle, The Circus of Life A - Z, It’s Always Sunny in Vienna, The Mechanical Paradise). Alongside this he works with other freelance groups and on commission for institutions in Europe. He gives various lectures and teaches in the field of performance.