Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Switzerland
AIRPORT KIDS
Text and direction: Lola Arias, Stefan Kaegi

19.09 20:00, 20.09 20:00
Terazije Theatre
Duration : 80 min.

The director Stefan Kaegi, already well known to the Bitef audience, explores the lives of the children whose parents live between several countries and who, in the fashion of modern nomads, spend their lives at the world airports, as a kind of the freight containers’ content, left to their own destinies. Those children, multilingual and multicultural, are on the constant quest for their own language. The young actors represent themselves; they sing their own songs telling us, thus, about their own destiny. “Airport Kids” is an example of a new form of the engaged theatre. Kaegi has recently won the special prize of the European theatre union for the new theatre forms.

Direction and text: Lola Arias and Stefan Kaegi
Video: Bruno Deville
Dramaturgy: Florian Malzacher
Set design: Dominic Huber, blendwerk
Light: Christophe Glanzmann, David Perez
Music: Stephane Vecchione
Assistants: Fabienne Rossier, Boris Brüderlin
Under the technical direction of Michel Beuchat

With 9 "global nomads" from 7 to 14 years old:
Oussama Braun
Patrick Bruttin
Julien Ho
Kristina Kovalevskaya
Garima Manek
Aline de Mello
Morais Clyde
Philippoz Juliette Michel
Sarah Serafim

On Tour:
Stage manager: Felix Dorsaz
Video: Michael Romaniszin
Sound: Jocelyn Raphanel
Light: Christophe Glanzmann
Music: Stephane Vecchione
Artistic assistant: David Mass
Assistant: Sophia Bulliard

Main producer: Theatre Vidy-Lausanne

Coproducers: Festival d'Avignon 2008, Hebbel-am-Ufer (Berlin), Theater Chur, Le-Maillon, Theatre de Strasbourg Scene europeenne (Director Rene Gonzalez)

With the support of: Pour-cent culturel Migros (creation), Pro-Helvetia - Fondation suisse pour la culture (tour)

Created at Theatre Vidy-Lausanne on June, 10th 2008.

Directrice de la diffusion: Barbara Suthoff b.suthoff@vidy.ch
Assistante de diffusion: Elodie Loubens elodie@vidy.ch
Tour manager: Sylvain Didry s.didry@vidy.ch