2500 Ft
"In Cairo, the daily calls to prayer are systematically broadcast over the radio. A muezzin, selected by competition, gives the call from behind a microphone in a radio station, from where his voice is broadcast over the air to each of the city's mosques. Thus a ritual which has been performed by individual muezzins for centuries has today been replaced by a process of mass broadcasting, under the auspices of the Ministry of Religion. After patient fieldwork, Stefan Kaegi has invited four muezzins from Cairo to go on stage to talk of their lives and experience. In doing so, he has rediscovered the original value of the call. Each muezzin uses his own timing, voice, and interpretation to produce a specific vibration. But shunning exoticism and simplifications, it is mainly the lives of these individuals with their unique destinies that we are able to hear and see on stage."
With: Abdelmoty Abdelsamia Ali Hindawy, Hussein Gouda Hussein Bdawy, Mansour Abdelsalam Mansour Namous, Mohamed Ali Mahmoud Farag, Sayed Abdellatif Mohamed Hammad
Concept and Direction: Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)
Composition and Sound Design: Mahmoud Refat
Video: Shady George Fakhry (Kairo), Bruno Deville
Dramaturge: Laila Soliman
Stage design: Mohamed Shoukry
Light design: Sven Nichterlein, Saad Samir Hassan (Kairo)
Director’s Assistance / Performance: Dia’Deen Helmy Hamed
Technical Direction: Sven Nichterlein, Saad Samir Hassan (Kairo)
Video Operator: Bodo Gottschalk
Production Management: Katinka Vahle, Juliane Männel, Lana Mustaqh (Kairo)
Touring Support: Samah Samir, Mohamed Sleiman
Subtitles, translation: Ahmed Said, Ebtihal Shedid
A production by HAU Berlin and Goethe-Institute Egypt.
In co-production with: Athens Festival, Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy, Festival d’Avignon, steirischer herbst festival (Graz) and Zürcher Theater Spektakel.
Funded by: German Federal Cultural Foundation, Pro Helvetia / Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Berlin, Department of the Mayor of Berlin, In cooperation with El Sawy Culturewheel, Kairo.
