A Christmas Tale
Supervox
Siesta
Cross Dissolve
The Silence of the Roles
Legal Fiction
The Silence of the Roles
solo for one thousand actors
The play is the heroic epos of an actor playing the role of an actor, trying to get rid of the role of an actor -
leading to the question whether it is at all possible not to "play a part".
Like a scout he follows the course of his own biography, searching for traces of true, authentic behaviour.
He is the passionate collector of minerals with a fascination for purity and beauty. He is the ingenious forger who falls victim to falsified facts himself. He is the one to ask questions and at the same moment the one who's being interrogated. Searching for a kernel he reveals, dissects, relates and improvises.
But the seemingly truthful moments turn out to be mirror images, enlargements, copies and imitations of roles.
Even the most personal memories and spontanious actions seem to be only artifices, moulds and stencils of the omnipresent "everyday-actor".
One question remains: Does he have the right at all to pass himself off - alone or in front of an audience - as a person, speaking in the first person. "I".
Actor: Ulrich Cyran
Direction and Set: Jan Pusch
Script: Ulrich Cyran, Jan Pusch a.o.
Light: Carsten Sander
Sound: Hans-Peter Kurz
Assistent: Isabell Jannack
Production: Ulrich Cyran
Photography: Arno Declair
Duration: 60 min without interval
Co-produced by Kampnagel Hamburg 1998
Funded by Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
"Excellent solo-act on 'Kampnagel': "The silence of the roles" surprises stupendously: as an eloquent play, acting, and directing performance."
Hamburger Morgenpost
"Cyran and Pusch collaged a complicated text consisting of own and Shakespeare -quotes, that [...] reveals cynically or ironically the humbug of behavioural roles."
Die Welt
"A surprising reduction, [...] in its pureness almost like an early mature work."
Taz
"Interesting, because suspicious."
Hamburger Rundschau
"In an empty space Jan Pusch concentrates on mind, body and word movement.
Cyran is doubling alert and witty. With irony and comic [...] he charmes the audience."
ballet international/tanz aktuell
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