Tourist Trap

«Tourist Trap»
Thom Luz & Ensemble

The musical theatre creation transports the audience to an abandoned tourist magnet. On the ruins of a once splendid place, fleeting illusions of a time long gone are created.

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Thu 01/09 8:00 – 9:20 PM
Halle Ost
Fri 01/10 8:00 – 9:20 PM
Halle Ost
Sat 01/11 8:00 – 9:20 PM
Halle Ost
Sun 01/12 4:00 – 5:20 PM
Halle Ost

Five forgotten employees wait for customers in the withered ruins of a once buzzing tourist magnet, resurrecting the old splendour of the place from rubble and leftover instruments. Because, as in real life, if you can no longer create an illusion, you're finished. But memories are notoriously fragmentary and contradictory, and where have we ended up here anyway? Is this a viewpoint or a dead end? A fashionable health resort? A sacred place, or just a backdrop? And where have all the people, trees, animals and wonders disappeared to?

A new musical theatre creation, finely composed by Thom Luz & Ensemble.

‘A single spotlight and an old mirror that throws the cone of light back into the darkness: that's all it takes for Thom Luz to amaze his audience. His theatre is one of fleeting phenomena, and thus one that makes time itself tangible.’ (Mathias Balzer, Jury Swiss Theatre Award 2019)

‘Thom Luz is a director who could stage even a cookbook.’ (Marina Davydova, Head of Drama Salzburg Festival 2024)

With:
Fhunyue Gao, Mara Miribung, Daniele Pintaudi, Samuel Streiff, Mathias Weibel
Directed by:
Thom Luz
Musical direction:
Mathias Weibel
Stage design:
Duri Bischoff
Sound design:
Martin Hofstetter
Costumes:
Tina Bleuler
Dramaturgy:
Stephan Müller
Lighting design:
Thom Luz, Jens Seiler
Technical direction:
Jens Seiler
Props:
Manfred Schmidt
Director's assistant:
Fredi Thiele
Make-up consultant:
Shalva Nikashvili
Communication:
Ramun Bernetta
Production management/diffusion:
Gabi Bernetta
Production:
Thom Luz & Bernetta Theaterproduktionen
Co-production:
Kaserne Basel, Gessnerallee Zürich, Théâtre Vidy Lausanne, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Bühne Aarau

Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachausschuss Theater/Tanz BL/BS, Pro Helvetia, Migros Engagement, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Kanton Zug

Thom Luz was born in Zurich and studied at the Zurich University of Music and Theatre. He has staged productions in the independent theatre scene and at municipal theatres in Switzerland, Germany and France. In 2014, he was voted Young Director of the Year by the trade magazine ‘Theater heute’. From 2015 to 2020, Thom Luz was in-house director at Theater Basel. His productions have been invited to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt, the Autorentheatertage at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Kontakt International Theatre Festival Toruń, the Maillon Strasbourg and the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers Paris. His productions ‘When I Die’, ‘Unusual Weather Phenomena Project’ and ‘Girl From The Fog Machine Factory’ have toured the world. At the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, he staged Max Frisch's ‘Man Appears in the Holocene’ in 2016 and Thomas Bernhard's ‘Old Masters’ in 2018. In 2019, Thom Luz worked with the Residenztheater Munich and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin for the first time. In the same year, he was awarded the Swiss Theatre Prize. In the 20/21 season, he created ‘Lieder ohne Worte’, another independent production in Zurich and Basel.