Corinne Maier:
Like a Prayer
Like a Prayer
Why do we believe what we believe and how did that even come about? What does a life look like in which faith plays the main role? Like a Prayer poses probably the most frequently asked question about faith and seeks these answers in personal encounters. After a period of research in the St. Josef monastery deep in inner Switzerland, the two performers confront each other with their experiences gained in the monastery and their own differing perspectives on faith.
DIRECTION Corinne Maier PERFORMANCE Julia Bihl, Johannes Dullin DRAMATURGY Johanna Höhmann STAGE Valerie Hess SOUND DESIGN, COMPOSITION Bernhard La Dous VIDEO Gernot Wöltjen ARTISTIC COLLABORATION Kris Merken LIGHT, TECHNICAL DIRECTION Thomas Kohler COMPANY MANAGEMENT Franziska Schmidt/strangerincompany
A production by Corinne Maier in co-production with Kaserne Basel. Funded by Prairie – The co-production model of Migros-Kulturprozent with innovative swiss theatre groups and GGG Basel - Gesellschaft für das Gute und Gemeinnützige. With friendly support of Fachausschuss Theater und Tanz BS/BL, Fondation Nestlé pour l'art, GGG Basel - Gesellschaft für das Gute und Gemeinnützige, Stiftung Edith Maryon und Ernst Göhner Stiftung. media partner: taz.die tageszeitung
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CORINNE MAIER lives and works as a director and performer in Basel. She studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice in Hildesheim until 2009. She worked as a dramaturg, is co-founder of the theater collective magic garden, and first appeared on stage herself in lecture performances. In 2012, she began directing and has since staged Past Is Present (2013) and Like A Prayer (2015), among others, with which she has toured to festivals in Europe and India. In 2017 she developed Children of Tomorrow together with the author Tina Müller for the Munich Volkstheater. In 2018 she created The end of the world as we know it, which was shown at the Festival Politik im freien Theater in Munich, among others, and in 2019 BUNKERN at the Luzerner Theater. Extensive expeditions and research are at the beginning of her often documentary theater works.