Invited Ghosts 2022

A Phil Hayes / First Cut Productions coproduction with: 
Fabriktheater, Rote Fabrik Zürich
Le Grütli – Centre de production et de diffusion des Arts vivants Geneva
Südpol Luzern

with Phil Hayes and Taimashoe

I thought I was looking for revenge … but I guess now I’d settle for forgiveness.

Two people appear on a snow covered stage.
One has travelled far carrying a stolen Uber Eats bag. They are also carrying a gun and a book of contacts.
The other sits improvising at a piano.
Dogs bark in the distance, cars speed by on a distant highway…

snow
a piano
poems
songs
a book of contacts
dogs
forgiveness
lies
wind
phonecalls
a stolen Uber Eats bag
food
ghosts

The uncertainty is colossal, the drive for resocialisation large... A sensually intense balancing act.

Thierry Frochaux, P.S. Zeitung, Zurich

  • Photograph - Adrian Elsener
    Niklaus Spoerri
  • Niklaus Spoerri