In Positions Ivana Müller works with the concept of “economy” and its different versions: economy of movement, economy of identity, economy of emotion, economy of theatre; using assets that define our social identity, our civil status, our class position and our life style as currency. A “capital” that is there in the beginning of the show, a “potential”, or “destiny” that each of the performers has, gets exchanged, traded, bargained, fructified and capitalized on through an obscure practice that resembles a “black-market”. What in the beginning looks almost like a children’s game develops into an imaginative and emotional journey based on the idea of “exchange” that offers a complex reflection on the idea and place of value and the representation of the same. In this playful and somewhat existential performance, IM builds a quirky economics lesson, a board game echoing the instability of our subjective constructions.

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The specificity of the pièce is that for each venue the permanent cast of four company performers is joined by 8 local performers that are invited for the occasion. The “invited performers” are a combination of professionals and amateurs. Positions was originally made in French and then adapted to an English version. The pièce is based on language structures and cannot be ‘overtitled’, meaning that it can be performed only in those two languages.