Solar Plexus
Photo: Mattias Dellmo
Brutal, provocative and beautiful
about human struggle for a life
worth living. Strong images, music
and movement in a black humoristic
story about racism and oppression
set in a boxing ring. An actor
and a street dancer portray characters
from all layers of society in a
continuous fight for survival where
nothing is what it seams and the
circumstances keep changing. The
images are inspired by the segregated
suburbs of the western world and
the contradictory street life of
the city Cairo.
On stage Egyptian award winning actor and storyteller Ramadan Khater, member of Egypt’s most famous independent group El Warsha and artistic leader of independent group Beni Mazar and Phax Ahamada, street dancer with international career and world unique dance technique, also working as an actor.
Photo: Mattias Dellmo
Solar Plexus is a Swedish-Egyptian co production and a unique cooperation between Studio Oscuro and Swedish independent group Teater Trixter and Egyptian organizations Studio Emad Eddin, Cairo and I-ACT, Alexandria. Solar Plexus was conceived during open rehearsals at Studio Emad Eddin and at the Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups, arranged by I-ACT at Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Solar Plexus opened the 13th of October 2006 at Teater Trixter, Gothenburg
Co producers:
Teater
Trixter
www.trixter.se
Studio Emad Eddin
www.seefoundation.org
I-ACT
and Creative Forum for
Independent Theatre Groups
www.iact-eg.org
Credits
On stage : Phax
Ahamada and Ramadan Khater
Script, direction,
set and light design: Charlie
Åström
Music: Björn
Knutsson
Make up design: Gunnar Lundgren
Costume design,
props and production Studio
Oscuro: Christine Åström
Director´s assistant, production
Egypt, light and sound technique:
Saad Samir
Production Teater
Trixter: Inga-Bodil
Hermansson, Beatrice Berggren
Photo and graphic
design: Mattias
Dellmo
Solar Plexus
was funded by::
Dramatiska Institutet, Sida,
The Swedish Institute, The Arts
Grants Committee of Sweden,
The Swedish Council for Cultural
Affairs, City of Gothenburg Culture,
ABF, The Mannheimer foundation,
Gertrude and Ivar Philipson’s
Foundation and The Family Wikander’s
Foundation.
