LIBRARY (Tour 1)
The Quiet Volume by Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells, London/Sheffield
“The Quiet Volume” is a whispered, self-generated performance for two visitors each in the reading room of a library. The play explores the suspense in libraries around the world, this mixture of silence and concentration, where people indulge in books in their quite individual way.
Two participants sit next to each other in front of a pile of books, receiving assignments via index cards, notes and headphones. This provides for a trail between the pages of a book. During 45 minutes there will be this intimate magic that is inherent in intimate readings.
With his group Rotozaza Ant Hampton has continuously enlarged the circumstances of theatre with new forms of inter-activity. “The Quiet Volume” is his first co-operation with Tim Etchells, the artistic mastermind of the British live-art-collective Forced Entertainment.

In co-production with Vooruit Arts Centre, Belgium.

17. SEPT. / 11 AM – 6 PM
18. + 19. SEPT. / 12 AM – 5 PM
21. + 22. + 23. SEPT. / 4 PM – 9 PM
24. SEPT. / 11 AM – 6 PM
(Starts every 20 minutes; ticket reservation necessary, 030 – 259004 27)

Length: 150 min.
meeting point: Universitätsbibliothek
der Humboldt-Universität, Standort
Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 1/3, Mitte
Tim Etchells