Nassim Soleimanpour & Omar Elerian
ECHO is a meditation on exile and resistance. Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, who is prevented from travelling with his plays, invites a performer to take his place on stage to read a text that they discover live on stage. Without rehearsal or preparation, the performer embarks on a journey through the story of the playwright who, connected live from Berlin, shares instructions through an earpiece. Clever staging and improvisational games shake up notions of time, space, borders, and homeland.
Writer: Nassim Soleimanpour
Director: Omar Elerian
Cast: A new unrehearsed performer every show
Creative Technologist, Video & Production Designer: Derek Richards
Lighting Designer: Jackie Shemesh
Composer & Sound Designer: Anna Clock
Dramaturgy: Kirsty Housley, Immanuel Bartz
Script Editor: Stewart Pringle
Creative Producer: Immanuel Bartz
Company Stage Manager: Rike Berg
Production Manager: Ethan Hudson
AV Technician / Operator: Peter Adams
Director of Photography: Katja Rivas Pinzon
Location Recordists: Lotta Sahlstedt, Axel Lischke
Set Fitting: Jorge Andres Rivas Pinzon
Gaffer: Florian Geyer
Productions: NSP, coproduite par LIFT (Londres) / The Royal Court Theatre (Londres), Staatstheater Mainz, Riksteatern (Suède), Why Not Theatre (Toronto), Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles (Bruxelles) / Le Lieu Unique, scène nationale de Nantes, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Canberra Theatre Centre / Malthouse Theatre (Melbourne).
In association with: The Shed (New York City), a LIFT Concept Touring Commission.
