Theatre
Las Multitudes
Federico León / Buenos Aires
A play for 108 Berliners, 13 Argentinians and five generations
European premiere
Las Multitudes © Sebastián Arpesella
121 men, women and children spanning all generations go in search of a community and their identity. But in their attempt to organize themselves, this crowd of people disintegrates into isolated groups: the old gather together, the dark-haired men, the young girls. Each generation unites its collective experiences. If a young man falls in love with a young girl, all his peers do too. If this angers his girlfriend, then she becomes a cipher of the ‘angry young woman’. In “Las Multitudes”, Argentinian director and film-maker Federico León has created a catalogue of humanity in miniature form: 13 Argentinian actors and 108 Berliners act out the dynamics within and between the various groups. The interaction runs horizontally as well as vertically through the generations. Everyone is a protagonist for a moment before disappearing back into anonymity. “Las Multitudes” is a search for identity in the area of conflict between the individual and the collective, a rumination on the place of the individual in society. It would be nice, says León, if the audience could remember each of the 121 people at the end.
Concept / Direction Federico León
Music Diego Vainer
Lighting design Alejandro Le Roux
Stage design Ariel Vaccaro
Costume design Gabriela A. Fernández
Directing assistant Claudia Schijman
Artistic assistant / technical coordination Julián Tello
Production Florencia Wasser
Production Europe Judith Martin, Tatiana Saphir
Casting Buenos Aires María Laura Berch
Casting Berlin Anna de Carlo
Backstage coordinators Jesica Monges, Rodrigo Pérez
Group coordinators Ludmilla Ebert (girls and boys), Elke Espert (seniors), Tatiana Saphir (young women and men), Mareike Seifert (teenagers), Marie Susanne Zwinzscher (adults)
Translation rehearsal Yasmin Haddad
Roberto, leader of the male seniors Ricardo Coniglio
Representative of the male seniors Raúl Schürlein
Beatriz, leader of the female seniors Dora Mils
Representative of the female seniors Elsa Bloise
Diego, leader of the male teenagers Diego Vegezzi
Representative of the male teenagers Ulises Bercovich
Julieta, leader of the female teenagers Giselle Motta
Representative of the female teenagers Laila Maltz
Leader of the young men Julián Tello
Representative of the young men Dalmiro Villanueva
Leader of the young women Carolina Martín Ferro
Representative of the young women Antonella Querzoli
Julián Julián Zuker
Girls Jarah Eckelkamp, Paula Hördt, Cosima Johanna Janssen, Milagros Juarez, Lilly Marie Jurk, Amelie Roters, Jocelyne Schmidt, Amelie Schrader, Katharina-Luise Sempf, Renata Toscano, Carlotta Sophia Zilges
Boys Alexander Furth, Leandro Juarez, Justus Kleine, Vicente Melo-Rodriguez, Keis Mnif, Valentin Osterburg, Dschingis Pfaller, Jonathan Ratering, Remo Maximilian Rautenstrauch, Henry Georgi Rosenmüller, James Young
Female teenagers Larissa Brettingham-Smith, Thaira Deinert, Hannah Gerlach, Isabella Lübbe, Svea Lohde, Lea Pahl, Louisa Schloussen, Lara Schmid-Dankward, Yasmin El Yassini, Sabina Valie
Male teenagers Alexander Finger, Mikolaj Hadrsiewicz, Jonas Hellmann, Jimmy Phi Hoang, Tim Joppien, Luis Klein, Lorenz Nolting, Frederic Rudolph, Bill Schneider, Paul Sobek
Young women Ornella Bodratto, Sonsoles Ferrero, Elena Iris Fichtner, Carlota Guivernau, Juliane Howitz, Elizabeth Krämer, Natali Lipski, Viktoria Reitinger, Theresa Schlesinger, Gabriela Turano
Young men Gabriel Beltrame, Marius Böhm, Byron Carrasco, Dominik Djialeu, Santiago Ferreria, Sebastian Herwartz, Helge Pomorin, Vincent Elias Ritterspach, Erdem Seçmen, Bruno Ulisse
Adult women Inga Bruderek, Lidia Cangiano, Silke Lutz, Sonia De Olivieira, Cornelia Okoli-Martin, Daniela Patane, María Cecilia Rapacini, Patricia Russo, Heidrun Schug
Adult men Kay Bretschneider, Andrej Goncarenko, A. Causil Hochiminh, Juan Pablo Melo-Rodriguez, Juan Carlos Mesa, Demir Necati, Oliver De La Parra, Marc Philipps, Detlef Siehl, Torsten Strauß, Stefan Thelemann, Ariel Vaccaro
Female seniors Gebina Gareis, Mignon Gräsle, Ulla Ashika Haug, Gabriele Kanz-Schmidt, Alicia Labraga, Birgit Pollack, Ute Schaale, Norma Sosa, Rosemarie Willkens
Male seniors Hermann-Josef Fohsel, Néstor Gallo, Dietrich Garbrecht, Joachim Giera, Jan Klein, Alberto Marti, Reiner Seidel, Roberto Unez, Heinz Zahn
Las Multitudes. Rehearsal in Berlin
© Helge Pomorin
Las Multitudes. Rehearsal in Berlin
© Helge Pomorin
Las Multitudes
© Sebastián Arpesella
A co-production of TACEC (Centro de Experimentación y Creación del Teatro Argentino de La Plata) and Berliner Festspiele / Foreign Affairs with the support of the Siemens foundation as part of the project series Schauplätze, in collaboration with IICES (Instituto de Intercambio Cultural Ensamble al Sur).
Thanks to DIE THEATEREI BERLIN – Schule für Schauspiel, Tanz und Gesang
Supported by the Capital City Cultural Fonds