ABOUT PERFORMANCE
LECTURE ON NOTHING
Change Performing Arts (Italy) / Robert Wilson (The USA)
Age suitability: 18+
Duration: 70 min
Venue: Theatre of Nations
Address: Petrovsky, 3
Premiered on August 22, 2012 at the Ruhrtriennale Festival, Jahrhunderthalle, Bochum, Germany
Performed in English.
As a homage to revolutionary composer John Cage, Robert Wilson performs Cage's Lecture on Nothing, one of the central texts of twentieth-century experimental literature. The production has been described as being an "acoustically and visually inspiring approach to the philosophical and poetic text" which Cage based on a complex time length scheme similar to some of his music.
TEAM
- Text by John Cage
- Created, directed and performed by Robert Wilson
- Co-directors — Tilman Hecker, Ann-Christin Rommen
- Man with eyeglass — Tilman Hecker
- Dramaturgy — Stephan Buchberger
- Make up — Manu Halligan
- Music by Arno Kraehahn
- Video by Tomek Jeziorski
- Technical director — Reinhard Bichsel
- Light board operator — Aliberto Sagretti
- Stage & props — Monica Danielsson
- Production manager — Virginia Forlani
- Director’s assistant — Fernando de Testa
- Executive producer — Change Performing Arts
- Originally commissioned and produced by RuhrTriennale