As an internationally recognized theatre director and artistic director of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna, Milo Rau along with Frank Hentschker will lead a day-long symposium that will connect developments in Central and Western Europe and Latin America with those unfolding in the United States. Milo Rau will focus particular attention on the question of how Donald Trump's second term in office will impact the US cultural sector. The symposium will introduce attendees to Rau's School of Resistance, a project that fosters international collaborative solidarity in the face of global threats to artistic freedom. DOWN TO EARTH will bring artists, activists, researchers, philosophers, politicians, and local guests into the conversation to share their visions of how to participate in a global, solidarity-based response to this charged contemporary moment. The symposium on September 2 will be accompanied by a reading of Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek’s play The Second Coming in the evening with music by Laurie Anderson.
On September 3 Milo Rau and Édouard Louis will present a workshop demonstration of The Interrogation, a play they wrote and staged together, performed by Arne De Tremerie (NTGent Theatre). The staged readings serve as an example of how artistic intervention works within the RESISTANCE NOW project. The event is free and open to the public. It is co-produced by the Martin E. Segal Center and Milo Rau’s Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna and part of RESISTANCE NOW TOGETHER: https://www.resistance-now-together.eu/home
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