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Trap

What motivates you to get up in the morning? What makes you feel alive? And what are the traps you fall into that distract you from doing what you love? Rhea is a young musician who is about to leave school. Mr H is Rhea’s exhausted teacher. Elsbeth is Mr H’s mother and has dementia. Each character confronts the choices they make about their personal inner drive - or so called ikigai.

Each actor is accompanied on stage by a dancing-double. The dancer physicalises the joyful emotions of their character as well as their self-doubt and need for affirmation.

Trap poetically combines dance, theatre and trap hip hop music to speak to 14+ year olds as they make choices about studying/working whilst trying to not lose sight of what really motivates them.

Trap is performed in English with German subtitles. Post-show discussions take place in EN/DE.

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Credits

  • Concept & Choreography: Vanessa Cook
  • Writer & Theatre Direction: Tom Derrington
  • Music Design: Jonny Bolliger
  • Light Design: Cyril Lüthi
  • Set Design & Costume: Reni Wünsch
  • Dramaturgy: Emily Magorrian
  • Outside Eye: Jürg Koch
  • Production: Irene Andreetto
  • Performers: Giulia Esposito, Susanna Everiss, Eli Melvin, Xenia Netos, Jack Wignall, Rosalie Derrington/Ayela Paramalingam
  • Young Performers: Rosalie Derrington/Ayela Paramalingam

Funders

Trap was financially supported by:

  • Trap was financially supported by: Stadt Bern
  • Kultur Kanton Bern
  • Burgergemeinde Bern
  • Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung
  • Buergi Willert Stiftung
  • Gemeinde Zollikofen
  • GVB
  • Gesellschaft zu Ober-Gerwern
  • Trap is a co-production with tanzHaus Bern.