SOUTHERN BOARD MEETING & PIPS:LAB AT ALBUGAA FESTIVAL
Sunday 27 March the Albugaa Theatre Festival by Ali Mhadi in Khatroum, Sudan will start. Theatre Embassy will be represented here by Berith Danse and Wendy Raaphorst. They will give a workshop on our new two-year program Global Theatre Connection. During the festival the annual Southern Advisory Board meeting of Theatre Embassy will also be held with guests from Honduras and DR Congo. And last but not least: by mediation of Theatre Embassy the Dutch theatre collective Pips:Lab is invited by the festival to perform their legendary "Washing Powder Conspiracy". The participation by Pips:Lab in the festival is supported by the Fund for Performing Arts (The Netherlands). The exchange is the starting point of a intercultural theatre project later this year with Theatre Embassy, Pips:Lab and Sudanses artists.
The Washing Powder Conspiracy
The Washing Powder Conspiracy is PIPS:lab’s first grand multi-media theatrical concert. The emphasis lies on live music – which miraculously comes out of flat irons, old washing machines and laundry baskets. A variety of songs connected to the overall theme: washing powder, as well as visuals and absurd scenes are created live. Of course, earlier recorded video material makes a reshuffled, mixed, pulled out of context and musically conductible come-back later in the show. Meanwhile, PIPS:lab casually flirts with themes like democracy, capitalism, commercials and war.
In the Washing Powder Conspiracy PIPS:lab conquer their ultimate challenge: to edit their video material live in such a way that they gain the same freedom as musicians on a stage. The Washing Powder Conspiracy is a well stirred melting pot of music, technology and drama – and that’s quite an achievement in theatre land.
