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ABGESAGT: Goodbye Johnny

Goodbye Johnny by Martin Zimmermann and musician Han Sue Lee Tischhauser is a homage to everything on the fringes of society. A shrill, rock-music driven collection of wonderfully humorous moments spiked with tongue-in-cheek references to our own absurd times.

The setting, time and reality of this piece are in constant flux, just as our gaze and memory keep adjusting. Goodbye Johnny revolves around how the marginalized, the disadvantaged, the injured are simultaneously excluded and put on display. The confrontation with this is hard to bear. Do I have to face what I'm seeing, can't I just continue on my way and forget? Sensation and irritation also appear simultaneously, because the switch from normality to exclusion happens quickly and is intense. But what does it really feel like to live in in Johnny's world? Goodbye Johnny creates an experience that allows us to oscillate between different emotional states.

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Photos: Augustin Rebetez, Nelly Rodriguez

  • Bühne 1
    Tanzhaus Zürich
    Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
    8037 Zürich
  • Wheelchair accessible

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Nonverbal, without spoken text
  • With stroboscopic light

  • For children and grownups as of 12

  • Without spoken text

  • The piece includes strobe lights.

    Please take note of the Corona-measures in place.

Concept, direction, choreography, costumes Martin Zimmermann
Created and interpreted by Martin Zimmermann, Han Sue Lee Tischhauser
Musical composition Han Sue Lee Tischhauser
Dramaturgy Sabine Geistlich
Set design Martin Zimmermann, Simeon Meier
Set construction Ingo Groher, Andi Hohl
Lighting design Sarah Büchel
Seamstress/wardrobe assistant Susanne Boner
Choreographic assistance Dimitri Jourde, Romain Guion
Sound Andy Neresheimer
Technical management Sarah Büchel
Communication MZ Atelier & Manuela Schlumpf
Accounting Conny Heeb
Administration, diffusion Alain Vuignier
International producer Claire Béjanin

Martin Zimmermann is Associated Artist at Tanzhaus Zürich and is supported by City of Zurich Culture, Department of Culture of the Canton of Zurich and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council. He is also Associated Artist at maisondelaculture de Bourges / Scène Nationale.