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Hate Radio

Hate Radio is a documentary theatre production by International Institute of Political Murder (DE/CH). The production was performed at Black Box Teater during Oslo International Theatre Festival 2013.

Information

(Objekt ID 36332)
Object type Production
Premiere March 20, 2013
Produced by
Audience Adults
Language English
Keywords Theatre, Documentary, Political Theatre
Website Black Box Teater, International Institute of Political Murder
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At the webpage of Black Box Teater the following, among other things, is written about Hate Radio:

"In April, May and June 1994 approximately 800 000 to 1.000.000 Tutsis plus thousands of Hutus were killed in Rwanda. The measures used were simple: Machetes, clubs and pistols. But the most important tool for the genocide was the radio station Radio-TV-Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM).

'If you had looked for a simple and effective target in order to prevent the genocide in Rwanda', wrote American journalist Philip Gourevitch, 'the radio station RTLM would have been a good start'. With extreme cynicism the employees of the popular radio station had prepared the genocide for months. The schedule consisted of pop music, sport, political comments and mad, hateful calls for murder. The newest Congolese music and aggressive racist analyses fused into a sombre laboratory for racist ideology.

The project Hate Radio brings us to a reconstructed RTLM, which with its realist backdrop gives the audience the opportunity to feel how racism works close up and how people can be robbed of their own humanity."

Co-production: IIPM Berlin/Zuric, Migros-Kulturprozent Switzerland, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) Berlin, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Beursschouwburg Brussels, migros museum für gegenwartskunst Zurich, Kaserne Basel, Südpol Luzerne, Verbrecher Verlag Berlin, Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre and Ishyo Arts Centre Kigali. 

Supported by: The Capital Cultural Fund Berlin (HKF), Migros-Kulturprozent Switzerland, Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, kulturelles.bl Basel, Department for Education and Culture of the canton of Luzerne, Bureau of Culture St. Gallen, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, Bureau of Culture of the canton of Bern, Alfred Toepfer Foundation F. V. S., GGG Basel, Goethe-Institute Brussels, Goethe-Institute Johannesburg, Brussels Airlines, Spacial Solutions, Commission Nationale de Lutte contre le Génocide (CNLG), German Development Service (DED), Contact FM Kigali, IBUKA Rwanda (umbrella organization of the victims’ organizations of the Rwanda genocide), Bern University of the Arts (HKB), Friede Springer Foundation and the freedom of expression foundation Fritt Ord.

Sources:

Black Box Teater, blackbox.no, 17.09.2013, http://www.blackbox.no/content/titlePresentation.php?tid=2199&displayNav=false

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 17.09.2013

Contributors (16)
Name Role
Milo Rau – Script
Milo Rau – Direction
Jens Dietrich – Dramaturge
Milena Kipfmüller – Dramaturge
Milena Kipfmüller – Visual design
Anton Lukas – Stage design
Anton Lukas – Costume design
Marcel Bächtiger – Video/Film
Jens Baudisch – Sound design
Afazali Dewaele – Actor
Sébastien Foucault – Actor
Estelle Marion – Actor
Nancy Nkusi – Actor
Diogène Ntarindwa – Actor
Mascha Euchner Martinez – Director’s assistant
Jens Dietrich – Other (konseptuelt management)
Performance dates
March 22, 2013Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
March 21, 2013Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
March 20, 2013 21.00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) National premiere, Norway
Festivals (1)
Press coverage

Therese Bjørneboe, commentary article in Aftenposten after Theatertreffen 2012:
"Globalised language. This has been a trend at Theatertreffen the recent years, and one of the most powerful productions during the festival this year was Hate Radio by Swiss Milo Rau. This is a documentary production about the genocide in Rwanda, but it is also a reconstruction of the broadcasts from a radio station playing a determining role. RTLM functioned as a propaganda central, but the journalists and DJs were hipsters playing Nirvana. Hate Radio is about how words change meaning. It makes a deeply disturbing impression because the DJs operate with a globalised language shrinking the distance to the events."