Direct Action Theatre: Tender Riot
About program
The “Serve and Protect” is an ongoing series of artistic public interventions by “Direct Action Theatre” in which they work with riot police uniforms as the main visual and symbolic material. They place the uniforms into absurd or uncommon situations and so playfully question the status quo of the police as an entity. They want to really “serve and protect” the people, nature, pleasure, beauty, and life itself.
Duration
60 minutes
Language
Czech, English
Warning for audience
The performance features loud music and flashing lights, trigger moments (sirens, gunfire, explicit sexual or violent scenes, nudity) and audience participation.
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Creative team
Direct Action Theater
“If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg.” — Haruki Murakami
Direct Action Theater unapologetically stands with all metaphorical eggs. The group explores the connection between theatre, performance, and protest. They tackle urgent and pressing issues, using public space interventions to spark dialogue around contemporary social, political, and environmental struggles, movements, and causes.
| Creative team | Direct Action Theatre (Jan Husták, Nela H. Kornetová, Bjorn Hansson, Matthew Rogers, Jaro Viňarský and local participants) |
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The project was supported by Østfold International Teater, Grenland Friteater, Rosendal Theatre, T.I.T.S. performance group, Projektor Pøblene, Nová Síť, the EEA Grants, the Norwegian Ministry of Culture – Kulturrådet, Kulturkontakt Nord, Performing Arts Hub Norway and the Fund for Performing Artists
Thank you!
