Dedar fabrics in 50 Minutes by Deborah Levy
Dedar fabrics have been chosen for Deborah Levy’s first theatre piece, 50 Minutes, staged at Theater Neumarkt in Zurich.
Deborah Levy, one of today’s most acclaimed British writers, returns to the stage after nearly thirty years with "50 Minutes", presented at Theater Neumarkt in Zurich in January 2025. Intense and surprising, poetic and surreal, fierce yet suffused with hope, the play explores the psyche in the modern world through a dreamlike dialogue between Professor and Rabbit.
The set design by Hannes Hetta shapes a world suspended between reality and dream, where every element reflects the multiple shades of human emotion. At the heart of his vision, Dedar’s moiré fabrics: unpredictable and vibrant, with ever-shifting patterns that amplify the play’s themes of memory, the unconscious, tensions and desires, adding emotional depth to the narrative without ever dominating it.
Walls, curtains and furnishings animate the stage through light, shadow and texture.
“Working with such beautiful fabrics was a dream come true, as they became an integral part of the stage, almost like a "third actor" in the performance”, Hannes Hetta
A film directed by Alessandro Del Vigna
Photo Credit: Julia Hetta, William Waterworth and Joel Kerr