Fade Out  starts exactly where other stories end. By manipulating a specific trope or mechanism of time based arts, it reverses the narrative logic and turns the end of a story into an epic of loss and longing, that continuously balances itself on the borders of disappearance.

Fade Out is a minimalist work, one that reduces the theatrical aesthetics to their core and lays open the very conditions of performing arts: “They were in the light. They were in the darkness.”
The two poles of any theatrical endeavour, actors and audience, and the intense yet delicate relationship they engage are moved into the foreground. Fade Out uses nothing more than light, space and the intense presence of two people on stage, to reflect on the mechanisms and potential of live time based art. “And here we are now!”

concept & direction

david weber-krebs

performance

carola bärtschiger, diego gil

lighting design

minna tiikkainen

sound

coordt linke

costumes

myriam van gucht

dramaturgy

jan-philipp possmann

artistic advice

nicole beutler

production

theater gasthuis, sophiensæle

in collaboration with

LISA

made possible with the support of

FAPK, VSB fonds