Built from stories collected in Switzerland, England, Pakistan and the Netherlands, the piece weaves anonymous testimonies into a polyphonic landscape where the intimate becomes collective, and the everyday reveals its political weight.
On stage, an ever-shifting architecture of cardboard boxes – remnants of our consumer society – frames a performance in constant transformation. As Arnold & Komarov Travelling Theatre perform, CickinDunt draw live portraits of the audience, turning the theatre into a temporary gallery.
Tender, humorous and at times unsettling, LOVE**WORK holds contradictions side by side: purpose and exhaustion, care and survival, desire and duty. It invites audiences into a communal space where personal histories resonate across borders, and where the question of how—and why—we work and love is shared and reimagined together.
Coproduction: Fabriktheater Rote Fabrik Zürich, Kulturhaus Helferei, WORM Rotterdam
Production kindly supported by Culture City of Zurich, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Albert Huber-Stiftung
Accessibility
LOVE**WORK includes Creative Audio Description, with full audio description performed by the actors and delivered through headsets. Integrated into the artistic style of the production, this approach provides blind and visually impaired audience members with access to key visual elements, helping them to fully engage with the performance.
LOVE**WORK is a Captioned Performance, providing greater accessibility for D/deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audience members. Captions display the spoken dialogue, song lyrics, sound effects and off-stage sounds in real time on a screen positioned on or beside the stage.