Almost silently, a funnel-shaped glass vessel glides through the air, suspended from four wires, trickling fine sand on to the stage, until it gets caught somewhere. In the narrative performance “Die Uhr im Bauch” (The timepiece in the stomach) we discover what a man experiences in a medical institute, on the underground and on a platform. A perfectly normal story, you could say! Well, you could indeed say that before the performance. Perhaps you would be a bit more cautious after the performance. You would primarily be tempted to replace the term “normal” with some other word. But with which word exactly? “Die Uhr im Bauch” deals with the phenomenon of time. In a poetical manner, it depicts everyday observations in which the perspective is extraordinary, strange, and at the same time dead serious. 

WITH Jens Nielsen DIRECTION Jens Nielsen TEXT Jens Nielsen SCENOGRAPHY Jens Nielsen PHOTO Jens Nielsen PREMIERE Theater an der Winkelwiese, Zürich 03/2008 INTERNET http://www.winkelwiese.ch

Jens Nielsen
Whilst training as an actor at the Schauspiel Gemeinschaft Zürich, Jens Nielsen founded the performance theatre group “Die Engelmaschine” together with Aglaja Veteranyi. In cooperation with the independent group “Trainingslager”, he is currently working on a trilogy about families. Jens Nielsen works as an independent author, actor and speaker.