Foce
02.10
18:00

Boris Nikitin/Tšeliso Monaheng

Kids (working title)

CH/ZA

theatre and live cinema from Johannesburg
in English with Italian and English surtitles
world premiere
2h30

A documentary in a feverish state.

Three cities – Lugano, Basel and Johannesburg – will be connected live with the audience to follow, on a big cinema screen, the adventures of a group of young people wandering through the night in Johannesburg. They were born in the early 2000s, ten years after the end of apartheid, into a world of economic crises, incendiary wars and propaganda-fuelled hysteria. They live in a multicultural reality, but not in a just one. They do not believe in one God. They may no longer have any faith at all. They are curious, sad, angry, ironic, vulnerable – but they do not hide their vulnerability, they turn it into their weapon.

A thrilling portrait of a generation takes shape before the viewers’ eyes, in a vibrant odyssey that echoes the Nouvelle Vague and Tarantino.

concept, text, and direction Boris Nikitin
director of photography and conceptual collaboration Tšeliso Monaheng
director of photography Bantu Mahlangu
production manager (Johannesburg) Thantaswa Mthembu
(Switzerland/Germany) Alexa Tepen
sound Matthias Meppelink
assistant director Mongezi Ntukwana
technical director (Johannesburg) Michael Inglis
(Switzerland/Germany) Sebastian Sommer
dramaturgy Annett Hardegen
outside eye Neo Muyanga, Sebastian Nübling
performance Chioma Mphelo, Chrisophocus Seboka, Kenzo Hendrix, Nidaa Husain, Thabang Chauke, N.N.
costumes Nthabiseng Makone
assistant costume designer Molebogeng Phiri
a collaboration with Center for the Less Good Idea, Market Theater Laboratory
coproduction Kaserne Basel, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Festival Spielart Munich, FIT Lugano. With support from Gessnerallee Zurich
funded by Fachausschuss Theater/Tanz Basel-Stadt and Baselland, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Landys & Gyr Stiftung, IKF - International Coproduction Fund Goethe Institute

<photos Tšeliso Monaheng