We The 1%
It's rich against poor when the theatre company FIX&FOXY invites you to this thought-provoking theatre performance at Musikhuset.
Presented in collaboration with IETM Aarhus 2023
Venue: Musikhuset
They live in ghettos. They stick to those with whom they share culture and values. They place their kids in special schools and they do not want to contribute to the community.
They are the rich. The privileged 1%. And now they come on stage. Into our notion of what it’s like to be extremely wealthy and live distanced and isolated from the surrounding society.
What is the best thing about being rich?
– Being able to do exactly what you want. Having the freedom to choose.
WE THE 1% is a show about the vulnerability of being extremely rich and isolated from society.
A millionaire takes the stage as himself to be confronted with the questions and prejudices that we, the remaining 99 percent, have about them. But then the real lower class knocks on the door …
– I am what some would define as poor. I guess I’m the poorest in here. Do you often have visitors like me?
– No, I have not. This is the first time.
Danish with English subtitles
Ticket link only for IETM members
About Fix & Foxy
Behind the show is the innovative and award-winning theater company Fix & Foxy. They are known for bringing new and original perspectives to the table, and for creating performances characterized by social engagement.
The press writes:
“Fix & Foxy and ‘We the 1%’ is brave theatre, bravely staged, because it can go wrong, it is brave of the actors to take part, and it speaks its own intrusive and form-breaking stage language. (…) this is some of the best that Danish theatre has to offer.”
– Politiken
“Forget everything about theatre as you usually experience it. This is Danish political theater on a moral acid trip, but a clever one”
– Børsen
“There are moments of toe-curling embarrassment. There are also moments of extreme discomfort. It is wild theatrical magic that in one moment, we consider the rich Jesper an exotic animal in a zoo, but in the next we feel his discomfort in full solidarity.”
– POV International
Credits
Cast
The upper class, the homeless, people on social benefits, those in debt and those who go to the theatre to watch the others…
Performer
Maria Rich
Director
Tue Biering
Set and costume designer
Karin Gille and Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz
Light designer
Karl Sørensen
Sound designer
Janus Jensen
Dramaturge
Aljoscha Begrich