Milo Rau
Vienna, Austria
Human Imagination
Coralie Custos Quatreville: “This is the first time, thanks to him, that I’ve thought about the immediate possibility of art. Not in 20 years, not in 10 years, but right now, in order to repair the living world.”
Swiss director and essayist who makes theatre out of real trials, real massacres and real testimony. He founded the International Institute of Political Murder, which staged The Congo Tribunal, a mock court on the mining wars in eastern Congo performed with witnesses, victims and officials. As artistic director of NTGent from 2018 to 2023 he published the Ghent Manifesto, a set of binding rules for the company, including that scripts may not simply be reproduced and that non-professional perform
Human Imagination · political theatre · documentary theatre · tribunal · activism · performing arts · manifesto · witness testimony
Curated by Coralie Custos Quatreville
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