CABLES – Corrution never goes out of Fashion (Dress Rehearsal TaL 2021) – FESCH.TV

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

James Cables back on Tour! After almost two years of forced absence on stage, the Macedonian artist is putting on a show for his home crowd in Skopje and presenting his long-awaited new album.

Franz Strolchen’s new performance “CABLES” begins as a spectacular concert by James Cables and ends in philosophical reflection on cables, adapters and connections. A North-Macedonian performer-musician encounters an Austrian technician on stage under unexpected circumstances – in a situation in which they both have to deal with cables in their very own ways.
The central theme of “cables” will be explored as a metaphor, in the most concrete and also in the most abstract sense. Questions will be posed and contemplations will be made on how connections are made, about the mutual understanding of each other, about Balkan stereotypes, but also about corruption, about broken cables and troubleshooting.
The performance dives into the never-ending corruption spiral of Austrian politics, which are shocked by one of its biggest recent scandals: The resigning of chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
Franz von Strolchens „CABLES“ takes the audience on a surrealistic and surprising journey, in which the focus is set on the unpredictable human ability to set up rules and then to break them again – and how beautiful and dangerous this sometimes can be. What emerges out of all this, is an audio-visual-appealing and installative performance, somewhere between concert, visual art and contemporary analysis on corrupt systems.

„Jas imam kabli.” [I have cables (Macedonian/Serbo-croatian)]

Concept / Director: Franz von Strolchen
Text: Christian Winkler
Dramaturgy: Gábor Thury
Set-Design: Markus Boxler
Musical Cooperator: Jane Trajkovski
Assistant Director: Jakob Tschebull
Performance / Music: Ivica Dimitrijevic
Performance / Technics / Visuals: Nina Ortner

Produced by Franz von Strolchen, a Co-Production with NewsOff-Styria Festival 2021 and Theater am Lend, Graz