Marius Schaffter/Jérôme Stünzi and Antonio Ramón Luque
Foto: Jérôme Stünzi
Marius Schaffter (actor and playwright) and Jérôme Stünzi (scenographer and visual artist) have been working together regularly since 2014. Along with Sarah André, they co-direct the performance collective Old Masters. Approaching theatrical performance as a total visual and artistic work, Old Masters creates worlds with a striking, unconventional, and radical aesthetic. Using their favorite tools—absurdity, sincerity, kindness, irony, beauty, sadness, and gentleness, the collective invites audiences to collectively experience what freedom might mean today: a situated, ever-changing freedom that is constantly seeking itself.
Foto: Maria Lusie Tzikas
Antonio Ramón Luque (*1993) grew up in Málaga and the Bernese Oberland. After completing his acting studies at the Bern University of the Arts, he has worked both in the independent theater scene and at established venues in the German-speaking region. In his artistic practice, he combines text work with a strong curiosity for objects, materials, and their theatrical effects. For him, improvisation is not merely a stylistic device, but a tool for thinking — it creates spaces for new ideas and unexpected perspectives. His recent works include DADDIES_4_FUTURE (Premio 2023), DER SPIELER (Kurtheater Baden), GROW OUT (WUK Vienna), and BREAKING NEWS (TdL 2025). Antonio enjoys snowboarding, exploring the forest, and singing while walking.
Project
In this artistic laboratory, people play, try out and experiment, and make room for assertion: ‘there is a method to dilettantism.’ The aim is an artistic practice that not only accepts but celebrates dilettantism, the absence of skill. The theatrical investigation takes place by means of improvisation, object theatre, music and writing. The focus of the mentoring is on finding suitable methods and tools to turn ‘failure’ into theatre.
DoubleTheatre is used as a resonance space. In dialogue with the mentors, theatrical practice will be examined and enriched with new methods. The exchange of experiences and regular presentations allow new questions and new tasks to arise and always reveal what is difficult in the work – but also what the strengths of the project are and how they can be utilised.