What’s to be done after the end of history? In an attempt to answer this question, director and performer Nicola Nord talked with former and future communists about what remains when you loose a utopia. She called the auto-mobile staging of the documents and material she collected “archive for utopias, lost and found”, which has performed in international festivals in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands see little red (room).
In LITTLE RED (PLAY): ‘HERSTORY’ will be told. In this theatre-production Nicola Nord&Co. will look from the interstellar perspective of the third millennium at the great political utopias and the ideologies of their enemies. Together with her collective andcompany&Co, she constructs a docu-tale of a past which could have been our future. The multi-material stage-animation of Flashkes and Noah Fischer creates a space in the here that gives voice to the experience which follows the silence after the failure of social alternatives. Perhaps this is the moment to imagine and tell new stories…

with: Bini Adamczak, Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord, Sascha Sulimma&Co.
Light objects: Noah Fischer. NY Stage installation and props : flashkes, Tel Aviv
produced by andcompany&Co. and Theater Gasthuis in Coproduction with Freischwimmer Festival.
supported by DasArts and Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.

Tourdates 2009
14.+15.10.2009 Skala Leipzig (D)
20.+21.03.2009 Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main (D)
24.+25.04.2009 Behauviour Festival, The Arches, Glasgow (UK)

"little red (play): 'herstory' puts the last great utopias of the 20t century in such a perfectly shaped way on stage for which theatre-makers in big houses usually overdraw the budget for décor and costumes -- and receive cheering reviews in the feuilletons (...) a remarkably intelligent, synaesthetic piece of utopia."
Daniele Muscionico, NZZ, 29.11.2006

reviews

LITTLE RED (PLAY ):'HERSTORY' won the NRW KULTURpreis at the festival favoriten 08 -theaterzwang.
the statement of the jury:
"Daring temponauts circulate on the safe turf of a sophisticated philosophy of history.
Musical texture, modules on stage, fragmentary figures coalesce with an agile discourse and theatrical work-out programm. Performance, installation and story-telling theatre all at once, theory becomes practice and the theatre enjoyable in its multifaceted forms. This splintered world-theatre combines high level acting and dramaturgical precision.The effect: collective bliss in the theatre against the background of failed utopias."

little red (play): "herstory" Tour history

2008:

18.+19.10. 2008 Theaterzwang Festival, Dortmund (D)
22.+23.10. 2008 Theater Frascati, Amsterdam (NL)
12.01.2008 Campo, Gent (B)
30.01.+02.+03.02.2008 Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (D)
26.04.2008 Reminiscencje – Festival, Cracow (PL)
20.-22.05.2008 Wiener festwochen, Wien (A)

2007:

02.+03.03. Ringlokschuppen, Mülheim an der Ruhr (D)
07.03. Pumpenhaus münster, (D)
10.+11.03. Memo X Festival, Schauspiel Stuttgart/ Depot, (D)
09.-12.05. KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, theatre les tanneurs, Brussels (B)
14.+15.06. Festival Premières, Strasbourg, (F)
29.+30.11.2007 Spielart Festival Gasteig, Carl-Orff-Saal, München (D)
17.+18.12.2007 100 Dessus Dessous Festival, Parc la Vilette, Paris (FR)

2006:

20.09.2006 (tryout), 21.-23.09.2006 Theater Gasthuis, Amsterdam (NL)
22.11.+23.11.2006 Gessnerallee, Freischwimmer Festival, Zürich (CH)
07.+08.11.2006 FFT, Freischwimmer Festival, Düsseldorf (D)
20.+21.10.2006 Kampnagel, Freischwimmer Festival, Hamburg (D)
10.-12.10.2006 Sophiensaele, Freischwimmer Festival, Berlin (D)

Nicola Nord is a theatre-maker, performer and singer. She studied theater-, film- and media-science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt/ Main, at the moment she has an artists’ stipend at DasArts (The Amsterdam School for Advanced Theatre Research and Dance Studies). She is co-founder of andcompany&Co. and works in this context as a theater-maker and performer. In 2004 Nicola directed the play Die Ermittlung by Peter Weiss in the IG Farben House with students, a play about the Frankfurt Auschwitz-trial. She directed and performed in the play for urbanites – nach den großen Städten at the TAT Frankfurt and taught at the 5th summer-academy of the National Theater of Greece (Athens) with Alexander Karschnia: Exiles, Nomads, Refugees. With him Nicola also curated the conference Na(ar) Het Theater (after/ towards the theater) for the Hogeschool voor den Kunsten Amsterdam in February 2006, when the English translation of the post-dramatic theater by Hans-Thies Lehmann was published. Invited were Prof. Lehmann, Prof. Mike Pearson and Heike Roms, Ritsaert ten Cate, Tom Stromberg, etc.

Bini Adamzcak is the instable alliance of quarrelsome ghosts (for example of deconstructivist feminisms and orthodox critique of value), unwanted heritages and every-day reproduction-modes. Aside from that she is an independent author and editor of the Frankfurt-based magazine discus. In 2004 she wrote the book Communism. Small story how finally everything will change (Unrast-publishing house) at the occasion of the international culture-conference Indeterminate! Kommunismus in Frankfurt/M. There she showed her performance Communism for Kids for the first time, where she was reading out of her book. Because of the great success Bini was invited to a number of lectures and is touring with a D-Jane through Germany. At the moment Bini Adamczak works at her new book: Undead. About the loneliness of Communist ghost and the reconstruction of the future.

Noah Fischer is a New York based visual artist. A graduate of Columbia University, he is represented by the Oliver Kamm Gallery in New York and has shown installations in Belgium, the Netherlands and around New York. In 2006, Noah Fischer will have his first New York solo exhibition, demonstrating a machine that manufactures American rhetoric at the Oliver Kamm 5BE Gallery.

Alexander Karschnia, texter and theoretician, is writing for and about theatre, a dissertation about Heiner Müllers SHAKESPEARE FACTORY, worked for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation as interviewer and community-outreach person, worked with Christoph Schlingensief (CHANCE2000) and René Pollesch (City as booty 2), invented as urban activist with comrades the Frankfurt
night.dance.demonstrations, co-curates conferences, organizes symposia and gives workshops and lectures. He is co-founder of andcompany&Co. and curated with Nicola Nord the conference Na(ar) Het Theater for the Hogeschool voor den Kunsten Amsterdam in February 2006.

Hila Peled (flashkes) Her work combines computer-manipulated stop-motion,
video-editing and composition of digital effects with typography, illustration, sculptures, marionettes, puppets and photography. Since 2001 she concentrates on the development of her independent language, in creating sculpture-machines and marionettes for performances and animation-films, in which she sometimes also acts as puppet-master. Since 2004 she has an artist stipend at DasArts. An impression of her manifold works, with which she has won prices, gives her website: www.flashkes.com. Her training as graphic-designer Hila finished at the Vital Center for Design in Tel Aviv, Israel (1996). She received her postgraduate study in 3D-modeling and animation at the School of visual arts in NYC (1999). Hila also works as film-maker for ARTE and others. More then ten exhibitions of her work were shown in 2005 alone (check: www.flashkes.com).

Sascha Sulimma, sound-artist, musician and DJ from Frankfurt, now living in Amsterdam, develops acoustic landscapes and music for theater, performance and dance. He is co-founder of andcompany&Co. and founder of the &Co.-Soundsystem. Next to the projects with andco he creates sound installations, produces electronic
music and plays Dj sets in clubs around Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Sascha worked with Raqs Media Collective, Frankfurter Küche, Magda Reiter, Noah Fischer (for Art Brussels 2005), I. Helen Jilavu, JI-hyun youn et. al.