«PROTECT ME FROM MYSELF »
by Sanja Ristic
creative director & performing artist
ABOUT
Based on Ivana Sajko’s text, “Woman-Bomb” Sanja Ristic conceived, produced and staged the rock concert Show : “Protect me from myself”, combined with live music, dance and theatre. «Woman-Bomb» by the Croatian playwright Ivana Sajko is the monologue of a female suicide bomber, that reflects the last 12 minutes of a female suicide Bomber before the explosion
The trigger is pulled; the fuse is burning,,,waiting ,,,
The musical and aesthetic form of expression that is used in the Show reflects the emotional and excessive condition of this woman immediately before her action and follows the radical emotional world of the female suicide bomber. An emotional turmoil which takes the audience to a loud rock concert, to a fight, a celebration, into flight or weightlessness. In between the emotional tension of the assassin’s “Heroism and Powerlessness”, the play focuses on the moment “just before” that up to the end screams with incredible might for a strategy to survive and at the same time gives the female suicide bomber the drive to go through her lethal mission. The female suicide bomber – a «time bomb», that as a metaphor does not only show us the end, but more over reminds us to consciously use our own lifetime.
ON TOUR 2010
Basel – Roxy Theater / Berlin – Tacheles / Amsterdam – Melkweg / Bremen – Tanz Bremen Festival Berlin – Fusion Festival 2010
PRESS
Sanja Ristic and her team succeeded in bringing enormous emotional sensitivities on stage and managed to avoid clichés without losing the appropriate seriousness that is required for the subject. “Protect me from myself“ is a performance that stirs emotions and grabs you. It is in the mix: Silence and self-reflexive moments in which the suicide remembers her past are set against excessive dance scenes, songs and dynamic musical intermezzi. Still the fast show with this serious subject never sinks to arbitrary or befriending concernment. „Protect me from myself“ abstains from any moral values. The inner life of the possibly prototypical female suicide bomber stays a fragment and is presented to the audience only in extracts. It is obvious that the performance leaves many questions. How else would it be possible to deal with this subject?
CREW AND CAST
Director: Sanja Ristic
Co-Director: Heiko Kalmbach
Choreographic Collaboration: Felix Ruckert
Dance | Performance: Johanna Chemnitz, Sanja Ristic
Music: Almut Lustig, Claus Erbskorn
Set Design: Isabel Robson
Costume Design: Gabriele Kortmann
Lighting Design: Brad Decker
Technical Director: Fabian Bleisch
Stage Director: Michel Jann
Supervision: Tom Ryser