In the course of projects ranging from scenographic installations to radiophonic works, the collective have often turned to designated “experts” – not actors, but people who bring their life, their activity authentically to the stage. The collective also enjoy transforming social spaces or situations into theatrical projects in various formats, often bringing interactivity and technology into play.
In
Hauptversammlung, for example, they turned the AGM of Daimler shareholders into a theatrical performance. In
Call Cutta and
Call Cutta in a Box they devised a kind of telephonic theatre, staging a transatlantic conversation between audience members and call center workers in India.
In
100% City, which toured the world and was sometimes recontextualized in host cities, they brought to the stage 100 local residents selected to form a statistically significant sample. In
Welt-Klimakonferenz they brought the slow ordeal of the global climate conference to the Hamburg Schauspielhaus.
Situation Rooms – A multiplayer video piece is an augmented reality project in which 20 audience members appear on something like a film set, playing out war stories involving spies and arms traffickers. In
Utopolis the audience is led through the city by 48 mobile loudspeakers in pursuit of common and contradictory utopias.
The projects
Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas (2020),
Situation Rooms (2014),
Wallenstein (2006) and
Deadline (2004) appeared at the Berlin Theatertreffen festival.
Awards received by Rimini Protokoll include the Mülheim Theater Prize for
Karl Marx. Capital, Volume One, the Swiss federal culture department's Grand Theater Prize, a Europe Theatre Prize (New Theatrical Realities section), the Venice Theatre Biennale Leone d'Argento and Germany's national Radio Play and War Blind Radio Play awards.
Since 2003 the Rimini Protokoll group has been based in Berlin.
