The performance, presented in cooperation with the Budapest Spring Festival and PLACCC, invites the audience into private apartments and revolves around the question of what Europe really means to us.
Ticket purchase HERE
Home Visit Europe is a performance you can put in your hand luggage – big ideas are rarely presented so intimately. What is Europe actually? Is it a geographic border, a cultural identity, a coalition of states? It is said over and over that Europe is an ever-changing idea – too theoretical, as the individual can tell from their own experience. Rimini Protokoll contrasts this abstract idea of Europe with the individuality of a private apartment. 15 people become part of a performance in a living room that interweaves personal stories and the political mechanisms of Europe. How much Europe is in us all?
Anyone can host Home Visit Europe in their own home or be a guest in a stranger’s private apartment. Each performance takes place in different homes and so the performance will travel through hundreds of apartments throughout Europe, building a network that rather than growing from a centre, stretches from front door to front door across a continent.
Creators and Contributors
Concept / text / direction: Helgard Kim Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel
Dramaturgy: Katja Hagedorn
Interaction Design: Hans Leser, Grit Schuster, Mirko Dietrich, Claes Schwennen
Artistic Collaborator Tour: Anton Rose
Furnishing: Belle Santos, Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Produktion Managment: Anna Florin
Touring Management: Natascha Tertre
Website Design: Tawan Arun
Website editorial team: Anton Rose
Masters of Ceremony in Budapest: Luca Borsos, Dalma Magasi
Front of House in Budapest: Dorottya Bíró
Technical help: Julia Mohácsi
Translator: Dániel Mayer, Balázs Dohy
Dates: 30 April 2024, 1, 2, 3 May 7 PM, 4, 5 May 2024 3 PM and 7 PM
Locations: the performance takes place in private apartments, the address of the apartment will be sent by email after purchasing the ticket
The language of the presentation is Hungarian, except for the 3 PM session on May 4, 2024, which is held in English.
Ticket purchase to the English performance HERE
The production is realized as part of the Budapest Spring Festival in cooperation with the Budapest Brand Nonprofit Zrt. and the Placcc Festival with the support of the Csokonai Cultural Center, Pro Helvetia (CH) and the Swiss Embassy.
“Home Visit Europe” is a production of Rimini Apparat in co-production with Archa Theatre (Prague), BIT Teatergarasjen/Bergen International Festival, Frascati Teater Amsterdam, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Kaaitheater Brussels, LIFT (London), Malta Festival Poznan, Mungo Park (Denmark), Sort/Hvid (Denmark), Teater Nordkraft (Denmark), Théâtre de la Commune Aubersvilliers (France), Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse) and Teatro Maria Matos (Lisbon).A House on Fire commission/coproduction with the support of the Cultural Program of the European Union. The project is supported by Capital Culture Fund Berlin.
The event will be video and audio recorded. By participating in the event, the participant gives his/her consent to the recording and its release.