The National Museum of Singapore will be presenting a production from Belgium, TAGFISH, on 14-16 April 2011 at the Gallery Theatre.
It is a theatrically-staged film montage by a Flemish group called BERLIN, and is presented in German and English with English subtitles.
TAGFISH by Berlin (Belgium)
Thursday - Saturday, 14 - 16 April 2011, 8pm
Gallery Theatre, National Museum of Singapore
Tickets at S$19 (excluding SISTIC charge) will be on sale from 7 March from www.sistic.com.sg.
Student concessions are available.
Tagfish* tells the story of the UNESCO world heritage site Zollverein, a coal mining complex in the German Ruhr area. Following the exodus of industry from the region, people set to work searching for new purposes for the abandoned land and vacant industrial heritage sites. A Sheikh has plans for his latest dream: to develop a luxury hotel in Zollverein. Can a world heritage site be sold?
Six individuals: the architect, the town planner, the professor, the negotiator, the journalist and the provocateur, each have their own opinions about this. These people have never met before in real life but are put together on six individual screens, waiting for the Sheikh to take the seventh chair. In a theatrically-staged film montage, these interviewees debate, argue and philosophise about feasibility and costs in millions, about utopias and visions, stagnation and impending change. The material used in Tagfish is documentary, presented as a performance.
BERLIN
The Flemish theatre group Berlin makes cinematic theatre, a blend of documentary, performance and video. Berlin goes through a profound research process before selecting a medium or a combination of media on the basis of that study for each project. Berlin works with many others in both artistic and academic domains, resulting in a series of intriguing city portraits. Berlin likes to perform its productions in different circuits: theatres, exhibition spaces, festivals, special locations.
* Tagfish is a poker term and describes a player at the table who knows the rules inside out but doesn’t take risks and doesn’t adapt his game, which makes him easy prey for his opponents.
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