ALL RISE

performance
Tanzhaus Zürich, April 2026

Concept, direction Joseph Baan
Performance Joseph Baan, Luc Häfliger, bela, Sam Taskinen
Dramaturgy Simone Aughterlony, Felipe Ribeiro, Simon Froehling
Music and composition Luc Häfliger, bela
Scenography Dominik Dober
Costumes Marcus Karkhof
Light Joseph Wegmann
Sound Susanne Affolter
Text translation Eliana Kirkcaldy, Dylan Spencer-Davidson
Production Romeo Oliveras
Video Documentation studio simsim
Pictures Binta Kopp
Co-production Tanzhaus Zürich

ALL RISE cross-examines the dramaturgical genealogies between the legal system and the theatre, both technologies whose insistence on intelligibility and narrative coherence renders violence visible, narratable, and ultimately containable without imparting real ethical responsibility. Working with the vector of the trial, a ritual in the legal system whose aim for “justice” often warrants its own violences, the work interrogates modalities of sovereignty under law. Juridical demand for legibility and coherence—on performing plausibility in order to be attributed humanity—undercuts the fact that trauma is often incoherent. Deploying the mise-en-scene of the courtroom in relation to that of theatre, ALL RISE performs the trial as a space of waiting in which conviction, coherence, and sense-making are perpetually delayed. The trial becomes a no-show; the roles of witness, judge, and advocate shared amongst both audience and performers.



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