Aids Follies combines revue and lecture performance, documentary clips and pop culture into the first virus-biographical show ever. From pop to porn and opera to activism, a global cultural history of HIV interweaves with the obsessive search for a patient zero. The resulting panorama for which Genoël von Lilienstern has written new compositions, draws on queer revues from the 80s and juxtaposes typical narratives and stereotypes with an international research.
DIRECTOR, CONCEPT Johannes Müller
EQUIPMENT, CONCEPT Philine Rinnert
COMPOSITION Genoël von Lilienstern
MUSICAL DIRECTION Antoine Daurat
VIDEO Benjamin Krieg, Phillip Hohenwarther
WITH Misha Cvijovic, Hauke Heumann, Sabrina Ma, Valerie Renay, Beltane Ruiz, Shlomi Moto Wagner, Sirje Aleksandra Viise and others
RESEARCH COLLABORATION Ngefor Akamangwa
ASSISTANCE För Kunkel, Chris Gylee
PRESS björn&björn
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Honest work – Freies Kulturbüro
A production by Johannes Müller/Philine Rinnert in co-production with brut Wien, Theater Rampe Stuttgart and SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation and the Senate Chancellery for Culture and Europe. With the kind support of the Frankfurt LAB 2017 residency program. Media partner: taz.die tageszeitung
Photo © Benjamin Krieg
May 2018, Berlin, Germany
