World Premiere

Text: Christopher Weiß
Direction: Reimar de la Chevallerie
Dramaturgy: Gerd Zinck
Video: Matthis Albricht
With: Matthias Damberg and Gerd Zinck (in the video)
Duration: 60 min.
Age: 13+

Thu, April 23 - 2.00 PM & 6.00 PM
Fri, April 24 - 11.30 AM & 4.00 PM
Sat, April 25 - 11.00 AM & 3.00 PM
HfS "Ernst Busch", changing room of the Ballettsaal
in German with English surtitles

Matthias, a football fan, is standing in a stadium locker room. The crowd is sitting pressed together on the benches. He confronts them with a statistic. If 10% of all men are gay that would mean that there is one gay in every football team! Would we recognise him? Matthias is doing some local research in the stadium. Amongst the many homophobic opinions given by some of the fans, only very few people want to talk about the fact that sport has nothing to do with a person’s sexual orientation. Anyway there are definitely no gays in the German team. Or are there?

Stand your Ground has received invitations from several football clubs, most recently FC Schalke 04. It enriches the discussion about outing homosexual athletes because its artistic approach is full of humour.

The boat people projekt has been working in various constellations since 2009 as a fringe theatre in Göttingen. Its main areas of interest are refugees and migration, and movements on the edge of society.

http://www.boat-people-projekt.de

>> click here to read the vote by the curator
Bernd Mand for "Stand your Ground"

Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Guest Performance Fund for Theater, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Departments of Culture and Arts of the German federal states.

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