LIFT at the Royal Court

2 - 18 JUNE

LIFT at the Royal Court SHARING THE STORIES OF THE WORLD WITH THE CULTURALLY CURIOUS

MINEFIELD

by Lola Arias (Argentina) 2 - 11 Jun

This collaboratively created new work merges theatre and film to blur the lines between truth and fiction, on a stage 8,000 miles from their remembered battlefield.

‘War doesn’t interest me, postwar interests me. What matters to me is what happens to a person who went through that experience.

What memory has done, what it has erased, what it has transformed.

Some of these men have become professional storytellers and my work was and is to undo this in order to know what happened to them.’ Lola Arias on MINEFIELD

Lola Arias is a writer, director, actress, songwriter and a leading voice in Argentinian theatre.

Mon – Sat 7.30pm Tickets £25, £20, £16, £12 (Mondays all seats £10) A Royal Court Theatre co-commission with LIFT, Brighton Festival, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Le Quai Angers, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm hTh CDN Montpellier and Theaterformen.

Produced by LIFT. A House on Fire project, supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Image: Manuel Abramovich and Root Design

In her trademark political and playful style, Lola Arias brings together British and Argentinian veterans of the 1982 Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas war to share their firsthand experience of the conflict and life since.

OPEN FOR EVERYTHING

by Constanza Macras | DorkyPark (Germany) 16 - 18 Jun

“An evening full of lust for life and music” Wiener Zeitung “On a journey across Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, she sought out the 17 Roma musicians, dancers and amateur performers who along with five dancers from her own company (from Israel, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada and South Korea) have pulled off a weird, wild and wonderful show.” Tanz.

One of Europe’s most exciting performance makers, Constanza Macras studied dance at the Merce Cunningham Studio in New York and founded the dance theatre company Constanza Macras | DorkyPark in collaboration with the dramaturge Carmen Mehnert.

Thu – Sat 7.30pm Tickets: £25, £20, £16, £12 A CONSTANZA MACRAS | DorkyPark and Goethe-Institut production.

Presented by the Royal Court Theatre and LIFT. Image: Thomas Aurin and Root Design

Musicians, performers and dancers explode out of a packed Louis Vuitton clad car and straight into a journey through the Roma communities of Europe in this unexpected celebration of life and music. From the prejudices, clichés, traditions, poverty and violence – they honour the dwindling communities that they themselves belong to.

A collection of new works responding to the migration and refugee crisis.

ON THE MOVE

Artists from Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Syria and the UK uncover the stories of people forced to leave their homes.

AL HAYAT (LIFE) 2 - 11 Jun

By Manaf Halbouni A continually growing installation by Syrian-German artist Manaf Halbouni. Free.

ANOTHER PLACE 6 - 11 Jun

By Victoria Lupton & Doha Hassan An audio piece created between London, Berlin, Beirut and Damascus. Free.

Zoukak Theatre Company LIMBO OF THE WHITE SEA 9 - 11 Jun

By Maya Zbib A miniature museum of migrations from Lebanon. Free.

AS FAR AS MY FINGERTIPS TAKE ME 9 - 11 Jun.By Tania el Khoury (in collaboration with Basel Zaraa) A conversation through a wall between an audience member and a refugee.

Free.

THE CROSSINGS PLAYS 9 - 11 Jun, 6.30pm

By Andreas Flourakis and Fausto Paravidino A double bill of short plays exploring the impact of the migration crisis in Greece and Italy. £5 or free with a ticket to MINEFIELD that evening.

020 7565 5000 (no booking fee)

THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS 11 Jun (12noon – 6pm). By Chris Thorpe A durational theatrical experience that delves into the online expression of the great British public’s attitude towards migrants and refugees, as enabled by the great British press. £5 (All proceeds will go to Good Chance Calais and Crew for Calais) HAUNTED 11 Jun (1pm, 3pm, 5pm)

By Liwaa Yazji A Syrian filmmaker explores the loss of home.

Arabic with English subtitles. Free.

IMMERSE YOURSELF ON SAT 11 JUN: Start with a panel discussion led by Juliet Stevenson at 11am then drop in to Chris Thorpe’s durational piece THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDESS anytime between 12noon – 6pm; watch HAUNTED at 1pm, 3pm or 5pm; see THE CROSSING PLAYS at 6.30pm followed

by MINEFIELD at 7.30pm, and in the meantime, explore installations throughout the building all afternoon.

ON THE MOVE is supported by the Goethe-Institut London and is a House on Fire project, supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union.

MINEFIELD, OPEN FOR EVERYTHING and ON THE MOVE are part of LIFT 2016, a London-wide festival of international performance, liftfestival.com.

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