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POLY*EST*ER
A Dance*Theatre*Co*Production
of Cie. Birte Brudermann (A) & Fabbrica del Vento (I)

with:
Davide Fumagalli*Giacomo Gamba*Laura Mantovi*Kun-Chen Shih*Karin Steinbrugger
Directed by: Birte Brudermann* Music: Bartek Kubiak*

Fotoexhibition: Armin Bardel
http://birtebrudermann.multimania.com
www.fabbricadelvento.com

WUK-Theater
Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Vienna, Austria*
12th - 15th of June 2003*20:30*
Tickets : 0043 1 401 21 - 70* tickets@wuk.at

WUK-VOT
Geibelgasse 14 - 16, 1150 Vienna, Austria* 17th of June 2003*20:30*
Tickets: 0043 1 895 32 49 - 0

A house*
A house and a city*
People in this house*
People in this city*
From many countries those people came from*
From the East*
Here those people live*
What joins them is the kitsch*

Poly*est*er > a dance-theatre-project about imigrants in Vienna > that focuses it’s “camera-eye” right into a Viennese district which is “home” of mainly foreign inhabitants from the East: East Europe, Middle-east and East-Asia. The heroes of Poly*est*er are born out of one of the neglected and forgotten streets in town, you can find them in those cheap shops, gambling-pubs, they might have to do with drugs and weapons, might be involved into prostitution and modern slave-trade. Each of them shows a very personal point of view on his home-country, gives in-sights into life-attitudes and traditions, and lives diversity and differences. Although staying in Austria, we are taken on a travel on one of the branchens of the former silk-road - Austria*Hungary*Romania*Turkey*Iran*Afghanistan*China - with the difference that the exclusive silk-goods of former times are being replaced by goods made of plastic and polyester. The performance will be presented in a strange in-between of humor mixed with brutality, dynamic, kitschy objects, sounds, different languages, and all sorts of varied face-disguises.

Cie. Birte Brudermann > independent theatre-group based in Vienna, Austria with a style-mixture of theatre, dance & objectmanipulation. Founded 1995 by Birte Brudermann (> *1972 South Africa* studied theatre in Mexico & Vienna*), since 2000 directed by B.B. together with Bartek Kubiak (*1971 Poland* studied cello & animation-film in Brusseles* worked in theatres in London for many years*). The Cie. has been performing in Europe, Australia, Thailand & Argentina. Poly*est*er is a collaboration with Fabbrica del Vento, Brescia, Italy > group for contemporary theatre & theatrical investigation > artistic director Giacomo Gamba (> *1966 Italy* studied theatre in Italy & Paris* actor, director & novellist since 1982*).

Poly*est*er will be accompanied by a foto-exhibition about the "district of it's origin" presented by Armin Bardel (> *1965 Austria* studied philosophy, natur- & social-science & fotografy in Vienna & the USA* exhibitions, textpublications inside and outside of Austria*).