How do you perform when you can’t? How do you work when you shouldn’t? Whom do you ask for help? Your doctor? Your colleagues? Your boss? It begins with a dilemma: how can we speak when we’re out of words?

When we want to move forward, but feel not able to do so? They say that sometimes we must just take a leap and then a net will appear. Let’s try!

You live you learn is about burnout, our relationship to work and the significance it has in society. Despite preventing measures in companies, being burned out is often perceived as the fault of an individual, instead of questioning a system of working conditions. Therefore, many people don't dare to communicate that they are not well. And often enough, they don’t see it coming. 

So there is a difficulty, yet a necessity to speak about burnout to overcome it. This dilemma is the core of the work: It is a performance about non-performing. It moves from darkness to light, from speechlessness to a conversation with the audience. May we all learn something new tonight!

This is a primarily text-based performance, with spoken and written text in English. There is some written text that is not spoken aloud. 

This performance is spoken in English with Closed Captions in English. Captions will be on a TV screen, best viewed from the left side of the seating bank.

At the end of the performance, there will be an invitation to come on stage and join a lightly facilitated conversation over drinks. For the conversation only, there will be a BSL Interpreter present. The conversation will not have live captions.

Sensory Notes:

• Full Blackout

• Loud Sound (Drumming)

• Audience Participation

• Audience Offered Alcohol

• Audience Offered Food (Lemons)

Language: English

Venue and Seating:

T4, Tramway (Ground floor). Wheelchair accessible. Tramway venue access information.

Seating:  Seating Bank with flip down, padded seats with arms. 1 row step free. Wheelchair spaces available to reserve via Tramway Box Office.

Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

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• Discussion of burnout & mental illness

• Alcohol offered to audience

Artist Bio

Antje Schupp is a director, performer, writer and lecturer. She works across genres and disciplines, creating and staging performances, dance projects, site specific works, operas and plays. Antje is interested in ecological and social-political topics, combining different stylistic elements to create multi-layered narratives. Her work has a.o. been presented at Kaserne Basel, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Burgtheater Vienna, Theaterspektakel Zurich, Berliner Theatertreffen or Impulse Festival. She often works in international collaborations and has received the Festspielpreis Zurich 2020, the Lenz-Prize for Dramatic Arts 2021 as well as the Swiss Performing Arts Award 2021.

www.antjeschupp.de

Credits

Concept / Text / Performance: Antje Schupp

Musical Support / Performance: Martin Gantenbein

Outside Eye: Lola Giouse

Interview: Nadine Jent 

Production: born2perform with the support of Kaserne Basel, LAB residency, Fachausschuss Darstellende Künste BS/BL

This presentation is made possible with the support of Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council and Swiss Culture Fund UK.