Beer Tourist is a performance about the schizophrenic European identity. Two representatives of the "European middle-class budget tourist", thanks to the general welfare and the economic boom in the western European countries, are able to travel around the world. They choose cheap destinations in the former Eastern bloc. They insult everyone and tell the locals how they should run things. They pass judgment on the extent the future EU-members have civilised.
Two foul-mouthed British football fans on a cheap drinking holiday in Eastern Europe. Through a stream of abuse, prejudice and insults they offer their own verdict on the "European project". Energetic, funny and thought-provoking, the show plays with national stereotypes with sometimes shocking bluntness. Performed in a club or bar space.
Beer Tourist is based on Wunderbaum's extensive research in Ukraine during 2008 and the text draws on the revealing interviews they had with ordinary citizens of the Black Sea. Wunderbaum is a Dutch/Flemish performing arts company of five actors and an illustrator who work without a director to create socially-engaged theatre. In English.
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