MILO RAU (CH)

His performances, produced by his company International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM) , are based on statements and reconstructions of real events that mercilessly destroy the taboos of our time. In collaboration with CAMPO art centre, “Five Easy Pieces” brings children and teenagers on stage for a deeper reflexion on our world. How do we learn to be human? What is freedom, longing, cruelty? How do we learn to live? And die? Milo Rau takes the true story of paedophile Marc Dutroux to question our public and private life. He looks for the limits of what children know, feel and do. How do we respond when we see children engaging in scenes of violence or having romantic relationships? And most importantly: what does it say about our own fears and desires? An experience of confrontation based on a true fact.

Milo Rau was born in 1977, in Switzerland. He’s a theatre and film director, journalist and essayist. He studied Sociology, and German and Roman Studies in Paris, Zurich and Berlin. In 2007, he founded the company International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM), where he has carried out his work ever since. His productions and films (“Montana”, “The Last Days of the Ceausescus”, “Hate Radio”, “City of Change”, “The Moscow Trials”, “The Zurich Trials”, “The Civil Wars”, “The Dark Ages”, “The Congo Tribunal”and many others) were invited to take part in the world’s largest festivals, such as Festival d’Avignon, Theatertreffen (Berlin) and Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), among others.