*As part of New Performance Festival
By Rimini Protokoll (Berlin)

It’s all about you and the person at the end of the phone.

You open a door and a phone is ringing. You pick up the phone and a person with a strange accent strikes up a conversation. The person seems to know the room you are sitting in, even though they are 10,000km away.

Germany’s reality theatre superstars bring their transcontinental phone conversation to Auckland after touring festivals in Europe, Asia, Africa and the USA. Rimini Protokoll are purveyors of documentary theatre, exploring a theatre of performers who are not actors but experts or specialists in their particular spheres of life – professionals of a theatre of the real world.

Rimini Protokoll creators Helgard Haug (1969), Stefan Kaegi (1972) and Daniel Wetzel (1969) studied in Giessen and have worked together in various combinations. They are recognised as the leaders/creators of the theatre movement Reality Trend (Theater der Zeit), which has exerted a powerful influence on the alternative theatre scene. Since 2000, Rimini Protokoll has brought its “theatre of experts” – nonprofessional actors to the stage and city spaces. Each project begins with a concrete situation in a specific place and is then developed through an intense exploratory process. Rimini Protokoll are artists in residence at Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin.

Call Cutta in a Box is presented in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, with funding from the German Federal Foreign Office.

“...2009’s best plays, I mentioned that the best productions resonate far beyond the theatre, changing the way you think about your life. Call Cutta in a Box does that.” - Daily Planet

Call Cutta In A Box -
Hourly: Thurs to Sat from 4.15pm to 11.15pm
Sun to Wed from 4.15pm to 9.15pm
Duration: 60 minutes
*No tickets will be posted
Tickets to be collected here with your directions to the special location.

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