GOLDEN BOYS 2006
Zurich
co-produced by Theaterhaus Gessnerallee

Made for Gisela Rocha‘s own company this full-evening piece was premiered in October 2006 in Zurich. It presents four performers and a musician, all of them multi-talented and attractive. With the touch of a music-show this physical performance creates – deliberatly planned – a bizarre, happy chaos in a warm, colourful and light atmosphere.
«Golden Boys» was co-produced by Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich.

Little Red cap and the horny wolf – Between trash and kitsch. The white jeans too tight, but the boots all the bigger. Boomed by noise, undulated by dry ice mist, and flanked by a light-show – five juicy guys rock the stage [...] you feel yourself in a cage of fools and to the limits of good taste. Thus making sense though, for being nourished by male megalomania tasteless trash has the world in grip already
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Anja Lachmann, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Not for one moment the gold seems to be real in «Golden Boys». Gisela Rocha gives the fellows no chance to shine in a magnificent show. [...] All their poses will be exposed right away, non-stop will all their roles be taken off. [...] In «Golden Boys» – as in earlier creations – Gisela Rocha does not aim at an elaborated transformation of some vision, neither on a perfection of the dramatic art form. Her interests focus on what is happening in her team in each very moment. She prefers to stage the un-finished, the briefly touched, the roughly scetched. She leaves various things in the state of research
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Ursula Pellaton, Der LandboteTheaterhaus Gessnerallee