An ASIAN pop-up bar installation set in 2049
Setting
Plasma screens and plastic plants
Order a special local beer with one of our girls
One of our COMFORT Girls
We promise
We will comfort you until your beer has run dry
Feel free to order another one
We’ll be there, once again –until the beer has run dry.
Feel free to order another one
CLUB ASIA is being preceded by a research on the over 5 million people being human trafficked in the past 15 years. From Russia and Eastern Europe to other parts of the world. A dissection and celebration of the hospitality and sex workers industry, a setting to play around with the current urgent question towards cultural diversity and an offering of intimacy, without having to do the deed.
Concept/Head Production/Direction: JASON GWEN/arnhems work (nl/vn/ca)
PR Extension: BILGE DEMIREL (nl/tr)
PR Advisory: CLAIRE VAN DER HALL (nl)
Performance: ESZA THICKEMS (nl/id/am), EWA SIKORSKA (pl/nl)
Photography: DENISE KLEVERING (nl)
Videography: Mr. FL (cn/nl)
Music Composition: FLORIAN KNAPP (de/nl)
Fashion Design: HEDWIG VERVOORT (nl)
Neon Sign Design: DANA & RICHARD DIJKGRAAF (nl)
Project Advisor: DIANE ELSHOUT/researching bodies (nl)
With the financial support of MUNCIPALITY OF ARNHEM, THE NETHERLANDS
Powered by GEBROUWEN DOOR VROUWEN (brewed by women)
Supporting COMENSHA, part of LA STRADA INTERNATIONAL, an European NGO fighting human trafficking
With the support of MOVING ARTS PROJECT, FRINGE FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM, THEATER OOSTBLOK
And a little thank you to DE NIEUWE OOST/THEATER AAN DE RIJN, STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM, VONDELGYM AMSTERDAM, PLANT & MEER ARNHEM & AOTC AGENCY.
TOUR 2017
September 7-10 + 12-15
DUTCH PREMIERE
Theater Oostblok/Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Amsterdam
http://amsterdamfringefestival.nl/programma/comfort-girls/
August 26-27
previews
Uitmarkt/Fringe Podium/Marine Terrein, Amsterdam
https://uitmarkt.nl/programma/podium/vrije-uitloop/
August 17-20
try-outs
Sonsbeek Theater Avenue, Arnhem
http://www.sonsbeektheateravenue.nl/programmabekijken/totaal/uitgelicht/277/programma.html
April 16
preview
Festival Lumos, Paris