Close to the Skin

Trafficking in human beings is a
violation of human rights and an offence
to the dignity and integrity of the human being.
 
(Action against
trafficking in human beings ETS no. 197)
 
Under the direction of Dietlind Budde
and Harald Otto Schmid, 18 young adults
of the International Youth Ensemble
take on the challenge of giving the topic
human trafficking an artistic form.
In doing so, they follow the path
of what befalls children and adolescents
worldwide: What do they suffer,
what is guiding them and how close are
their realities, wherever in the world
they are staying at the moment?
Always with them is a close companion
called fear, sometimes tiny,
sometimes overwhelmingly big. And if,
in one moment, the fear is close to
boiling over, a brief encounter can help,
skin on skin, to fill the room with love and
mutual understanding.
Then, the darkness is confronted by the joy
and the strength of the youthful ease
within the play, and the stage is transformed
into a place where the actors
meet on eye-level and the serious side
of life disappears from the stage.
In this moment we get
an idea of how we,
as people of this world,
can bring light into the darkness:
When we live with all our soul and all our heart,
when we take care of the fate of others,
let them touch us and
don’t just stay comfortable and
when we don’t look away,
then relationships between two hearts can be formed,
then we can protect the dignity of the human being.


Actors:
Abdulaziz, Baraa, Faner, Fouad, Ibrahem,
Joana, Jo Ann, Levin, Leyla-Zana, Lina, Louisa,
Mohammad, Moustafa, Patrick, Paula, Ronja-Gylka,
Rosalie-Esther, Vildan
of the International Youth Ensemble
 
Direction: Dietlind Budde and Harald Otto Schmid
Set Design: Rebecca Budde de Cancino
Lights: Hannes Witte
Costume Design: Anna Sun Bartold-Torpai
Dance: Steffi Bahra and Diego Cancino

Premiere: 7th of December 2017 | 8 PM
(sold out!)
Additional Shows: 8th, 9th, 15th and
16th of December, as well as 19th, 20th, 26th and
27th of January 2018 | 8 PM

Admission: 12/8 (Students, Bielefeld-Pass)/
6 (Pupils) €
 
For additional insights into this work
of art please refer to the brochure about
this play.

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