Fear Industry

After the original stagings of "Fear Industry” at Rialto Theatre/Limassol, Fringe Festival/Nicosia and the European Capital of Culture/Pafos, we are proud to present the revised performative adaption of the work
for 3 more performances at MITOS / Centre of Performing Arts (Limassol), on Mon June 22nd, Tue June 23rd & Mon June 29th, 2015 / 20:30.

Video Trailer: www.vimeo.com/achimwieland/fearindustry

Achim Wieland (Direction/Idea), Marios Ioannou, Elena Kallinikou (Performers), Lia Haraki (Artistic Advisor), Marianna Pieretti (Mezzo Soprano), Dramaturgy/Script: with the Performers. Linos Panagi (Script Advisor), Sossee Eskidjian (Set,Costume), Giorgos Lazoglou (Light Design), Marios Neophytou (Hair), Panos Bartzis (Sound/Musical Advisor).

The performance, staged in English with two actors and one mezzo-soprano, intertwines theater and stand-up performance with fragments of Live Arias and Choral Works (Schumann, Purcell, Lang, Wolf, Pärt) to project concepts of real and imagined fear perceived in today's society. The work proposes a "living archive", combining personal stories, analytical context, and historic speeches to shed light on the origins of fear and the social, political and cultural motivation for its amplification and manipulation.

The performance distills a variety of narratives into a pervasive and penetrating cocktail of intimate accounts and public proclamations. We now fear anything from killer bees to drug abusers, wild fires to paedophiles, deadly diseases, online spying, the avian flu, old age, mad cows, immigrants, anthrax, wrinkles, environmental collapse, and – let us not forget – terrorists.

Building on the original performance presented at the Cyprus Premiere at RIALTO Theatre, this performance launches the larger «Fear Industry Project» (from Nov 2015), which extends to participating European Cities/Theaters (Athens, Madrid, Zurich, Stuttgart, London), who are collaborating with the Cyprus team to expand on the theme of fear, incorporating additional performers, texts and song in their native language.

“The atmospherically dense performance places us in a vigil state of recognising a culture of fear everywhere in all its glorification and with all its personal, political and cultural dimension…Wieland manages to move this performance in the category of art as a vehicle of reawakening.” – Christina Georghiou, ANEF, Vol. 52

The performance is supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture, MITOS/Centre of Performing Arts, the Goethe Institute, University of Nicosia, the German Embassy and Columbia Shipmanagement/Limassol.

For more information about the Europe Tour (Launch: November 2015 > Cacoyannis Foundation/Athens, Starting Spring 2016 > Madrid, Stuttgart, London, Zurich):

Coordination Europe Tour/Press:
Marlies Lanker > [email protected]
Coordination/Advisor "European Fear Industry Project":
Erika Voelzer > [email protected]
General Info:
Achim Wieland > [email protected]

Reservation Recommended: (+357) 99 666389