Antje Schupp | KASERNE-BASEL

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What if, in the UN Human Rights Council, civil society – rather than states – could make the decisions? What if the most affected people, rather than the most powerful, had their say? And what if we could join them? That is the utopian vision of a ‘People’s Council’.

The ‘People’s Council’ is documentary theatre, a social experiment and a form of protest. Over five days at Kaserne, we will be practising political participation with Basel’s civil society and engaging in the debate about Basel’s pharma industry. After all, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that every person has the right to health and medical care. But is the global pharma industry capable of supplying people worldwide with the medicines? And what role do Novartis, Roche and other Swiss companies play in this? What can we do here in Basel to ensure that the global pharmaceutical industry becomes more solidarity-based and inclusive? To ensure that urgently needed medicines are actually developed and manufactured? Do the people of Basel have the political power to act? Who should be involved in the decision-making process?

Through discussions with numerous national and international experts, the audience will gradually step into the role of decision-makers, assume responsibility, draw on their own experience and knowledge, and seek creative solutions to seemingly unchangeable circumstances.

After four days of intensive meetings and brainstorming sessions, the People’s Council will culminate on 13 December with a large-scale artistic event involving all participants and the audience. What we have worked out will be shared publicly, claimed and celebrated! With music, many conversations and esteem for everything that has been created and will carry forward into the future.

The ‘People’s Council’ arose from the desire of a group of activists – the #EmptyChairs Campaign – to create an alternative model to the existing, state-centred and highly polarised UN system. Their idea and this council will now take shape on stage as an artistic-activist experiment involving the audience.

In collaboration with the ‘Pharma für alle’ initiative, public eye and many other experts.

Table talks before the performance on December, 11 at 7:15 p.m., Rossstall 2

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Credits

Concept / Direction: Antje Schupp
Dramaturgy: Eva-Maria Bertschy
Set design: Christoph Rufer
Technical direction: Thomi Kohler
Production management: DasTheaterKolleg
Production: born2perform in co-production with Kaserne Basel
Partners: Kampnagel Hamburg, Windybrow Arts Centre Johannesburg, Ballhaus Ost Berlin, Studio Rizoma Palermo
With the generous support of the Performing Arts Committee BS/BL, Pro Helvetia, Landis & Gyr
The idea of a ‘People’s Council’ stems from the manifesto of the #EmptyChairs Campaign.

Biography

Antje Schupp is a director, performer and author. She studied directing for theatre and opera at the Bavarian Theatre Academy in Munich as well as theatre, film and media studies and cultural and gender studies at the University of Vienna. She directs theatre and music theatre, creates own productions in the independent performing arts scene, often works in co-creative working processes or with non-professional performers and likes to create site-specific projects. She is teaching at various universities in Switzerland and Germany.

Antje has extensive experience with different techniques of play development. She often works with a biographical approach and interdisciplinary. She is interested in political, ecological and social issues and combines different stylistic elements in her works to create multi-layered, partly documentary, partly fictional narratives. Versatility, experimentation, co-creation and interaction with the audience are at the centre of her work.

She staged productions at Theater Basel, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Theater am Neumarkt, Kaserne Basel, Konzert Theater Bern, Schauspielhaus Vienna, Burgtheater Vienna or Staatstheater Augsburg among others, her projects got invited to festivals such as Theaterspektakel Zurich, Politik im Freien Theater, Berlin Theatertreffen "Shifting Perspectives", Antigel Geneva, Impulse Theatre Festival or to Heidelberger Stückemarkt. Antje Schupp regularly works in international collaborations, e.g. in South Africa for PINK MON€Y, in Lebanon for Nouvelle Nahda, in Kosovo for LOVE.STATE.KOSOVO or in Brasil for Corpo.Cidade.Politica.______

She staged opera productions of Mozart, Massenet, Vivaldi and Menotti as well as various works in contemporary music theatre, e.g. in 2023 the European Premiere of the renown opera Angel's Bone by Du Yun and Royce Vavrek, who received the Pulitzer Prize.

Antje Schupp is the winner of the Festspielpreis of the Zurich Festival 2020 - associated with the cross-disciplinary premiere of the filmic essay REVUE 2020 in co-production with Zurich Opera House and Schauspielhaus Zurich. In 2021 she received the Jakob-Michael-Reinhold-Lenz-Prize for Dramatic Arts for her project The Courageous Majority as well as the Swiss Performing Arts Award 2021 of the Federal Office of Culture in Switzerland.

Table Talks

Together with Art of Intervention, we're bringing the table talks back to Kaserne Basel! Once a month, we meet at the bar at 7:15 p.m. to get in the mood for the upcoming theater or dance evening in a relaxed atmosphere.
In dialogue with invited guests, we take a queer-feminist look at an aspect of the respective production. And after the performance, we open the space again for a brief exchange: sharing impressions, developing thoughts, shifting perspectives.
Come by, be inspired, and join the discussion!

https://theartofintervention.blog/

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