Milo Rau

Milo Rau was born in 1977 in Bern, Switzerland.{{cite web| url=https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/media/nvvfuf3t/af24-text-only-program-antigone-in-the-amazon.pdf| publisher=Adelaide Festival| date=2024| title=Antigone in the Amazon: Digital program}} His father's Jewish family moved from Germany to Switzerland to escape the Nazis shortly before World War Two, while his mother, surnamed Larese, had Italian origins. His parents divorced when he was about two years old. Until he was 18, his name was Milo Larese, but then he decided his name was too romantic, so he took the father's family name Rau.{{Cite web |last=ri-admin |date=2024-06-24 |title=Milo Rau in Vienna, interviewed by Dana Rufolo |url=https://playsinternational.org.uk/milo-rau-interview/ |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=Plays International & Europe |language=en-US}}

He studied sociology, German studies, and Romance studies in Paris, Zürich, and Berlin, working under the instruction of Tzvetan Todorov and Pierre Bourdieu, among others.

In 1997, he travelled as a journalist to the state of Chiapas in Mexico, and to Cuba. In 2000 he began writing for the Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Since 2002, he has been active as a playwright, author, and director in Switzerland and abroad, working with the Maxim Gorki Theater and Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in Paris, and many other theatres.{{Cite web|url=https://www.schaubuehne.de/de/personen/milo-rau.html|title=Milo Rau|website=Schaubühne Berlin|language=de|access-date=2020-01-11}}{{cite web | title=Milo Rau | website=Schaefersphilippen | url=https://www.schaefersphilippen.de/kuenstler_in/milo-rau/ | language=de | access-date=18 March 2024}}

In 2007, he founded a theatre and film production company, the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM). The company was originally founded to coordinate Rau's project The Last Days of the Ceausescus, but over time, its focus broadened to "the multimedia treatment of historical and sociopolitical conflicts." Since its founding, the IIPM has realised more than 50 theatrical productions, films, books, exhibitions, and political actions.{{Cite web|url=http://international-institute.de/en/about-iipm-2/|website=International Institute of Political Murder |title=About IIPM|language=en|access-date=2020-01-11}} Headquartered in Berlin, IIPM also has offices in Ghent, as well as St Gallen in Switzerland.{{cite web | website=International Institute of Political Murder |title=Contact | url=https://international-institute.de/en/contact/ | access-date=16 March 2024}}

The Last Hours of Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu (2009/10), later called The Last Days of the Ceausescus (Die letzten Tage der Ceausescus) was a re-enactment of the trial that convicted Romanian Communist leaders Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu and condemned them to execution on Christmas Day in 1989. IIPM was able to obtain testimonies from individuals directly involved in the Romanian revolution (including dissidents, politicians, revolutionaries and ordinary Romanians) and the trial of the Ceauşescus, (including the general who betrayed them, the officer who captured them, and the soldier who shot them). Rau wrote the script (which was published as a book) and directed the performance, which, after being cut short after two performances in the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, premiered at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) in Berlin before touring Switzerland at the Schlachthaus Theater in Bern, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich, and Südpol in Lucerne.{{cite web | title=The Last Days of the Ceausescus | website=International Institute of Political Murder | date=18 December 2009 | url=https://international-institute.de/en/the-last-days-of-the-ceausescus/ | access-date=18 March 2024}} It was also produced at the Festival d'Avignon in France.{{cite web | title=The Last Days of the Ceaușescus by Milo Rau | website=Ashkal Alwan | url=https://www.ashkalalwan.org/program.php?category=4&id=97 | language=la | access-date=19 March 2024}} A documentary film (Die letzten Tage der Ceausescus), co-directed by Marcel Bächtiger and Rau, includes the stage production and footage from backstage at the Odeon, as well as eyewitness interviews and archival material,{{IMDb title|3894634|Die letzten Tage der Ceausescus}}{{cite web | title=The Last Days Of The Ceausescus | website=dafilms.com | date=10 October 2022 | url=https://dafilms.com/film/14869-the-last-days-of-the-ceausescus | access-date=19 March 2024}} and deconstructs the play.{{cite web | interviewer-last=Brînză | interviewer-first=Teia |first=Milo| last=Rau| title=Milo Rau: "Let's continue, but in another way" | website=Capital Cultural | date=30 June 2023 | url=https://capitalcultural.ro/en/milo-rau-lets-continue-but-in-another-way/ | access-date=19 March 2024}}

Hate Radio (2011/12) documents a Rwandan radio station and its role in the Rwandan genocide.{{cite web | title= Hate Radio | website=International Institute of Political Murder | date=6 April 1994 | url=http://international-institute.de/en/hate-radio-4/ | access-date=19 March 2024}} It was invited to show at the Berliner Theatertreffen, and was produced at HAU2 in May 2012.{{cite web | title=Hate Radio | website=BFS Archive | date=30 November 2011 | url=https://archive.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/theatertreffen/events/bfs-mediathek/Theatertreffen/2012/10er-Auswahl/Hate-Radio | access-date=19 March 2024| quote= Date: 16.5.2012, 17.5.2012, 18.5.2012}}

Breivik's Statement (2012) presents Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik's actual address to the Oslo District Court,{{citation|title=Skandal um Theaterlesung in Weimar: Breiviks Rede auf der Bühne|url=https://www.fr.de/kultur/theater/breiviks-rede-buehne-11305265.html|periodical=Fr-online.de|language=German|access-date=2016-12-14|first=Dirk |last=Pilz|date=18 January 2019}} which were banned from TV and withheld from the public. The address was read by Turkish German actress Sascha Ö. Soydan. Its world premiere was on 19 October 2012 at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar in Weimar, Germany.{{cite web | title=Breivik´s Statement | website=International Institute of Political Murder | date=17 April 2012 | url=https://international-institute.de/en/breiviks-statement/ | access-date=19 March 2024}} It was staged in March 2014 in Brussels Town Hall, in a Belgian premiere,{{cite web | title=Milo Rau/ IIPM – International Institute of Political Murder Breivik's Statement | website=Beursschouwburg | url=https://www.beursschouwburg.be/en/events/politricks/milo-rau-iipm-international-institute-of-political-murder-breiviks-statement/ | access-date=19 March 2024}} and at the CAMPO arts centre in Ghent in December 2015.{{cite web | title=Breivik's Statement | website=CAMPO | date=17 April 2012 | url=https://www.campo.nu/en/production/1730/breiviks-statement | access-date=19 March 2024}}

In 2013, Rau, in some of his most overtly political work, staged show trials in Zürich (The Zurich Trials), and Moscow (The Moscow Trials).{{Cite web|url=http://international-institute.de/en/the-zurich-trials/|website=International Institute of Political Murder |title=The Zurich Trials|language=en|access-date=2020-01-11}} The Moscow Trials examined Russia's record on free speech. According to Rau, "These trials act out or embody the real act of justice".

In June 2015, for The Congo Tribunal, Rau convened an assembly of 60 victims, perpetrators, witnesses, and analysts of the Second Congo War.{{Cite web|url=http://international-institute.de/en/the-congo-tribunal/|title=International Institute of Political Murder » The Congo Tribunal|language=en|access-date=2020-01-12}} Staged in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the performance it entailed a mock court that would adjudicate on the effect of the mining industry on the people of the Congo. Real lawyers, expert jury, and judge participated on stage, and the performance indirectly led to two ministerial resignations. The Guardian called it perhaps "the most ambitious political theatre ever staged";{{citation|title=The most ambitious political theatre ever staged? 14 hours at the Congo Tribunal|date=2015-07-01|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/01/congo-tribunal-berlin-milo-rau-political-theatre|periodical=The Guardian|language=German|access-date=2016-12-14|surname1=Kate Connolly}} Die Zeit wrote: "an insane project. Where politics fails, only art can help."{{citation|title="Das Kongo-Tribunal": Das Theater geht an die Front|date=2015|url=http://www.zeit.de/2015/27/kongo-tribunal-milo-rau-theater|issue=27|periodical=Die Zeit|language=German|surname1=Peter Kümmel}}

In 2016, Rau's controversial play Five Easy Pieces, in which child actors play out the crimes of the child molester and serial murderer Marc Dutroux, became the first foreign production awarded the Special Prize of the Jury of Belgian Theater Critics.{{cite web|url=http://lesprixdelacritique.be/index/detail?cat=14|title=Les Prix de la Critique Théâtre et Danse| first=Baudouin|last= Tamines|date=|year=|publisher=|pages=|language=|format=|url-status=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020222349/http://lesprixdelacritique.be/index/detail?cat=14|archive-date=2016-10-20|access-date=2016-12-14|quote=|periodical=Lesprixdelacritique.be}} In 2017, the play was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen.{{cite web | title=BFS Archive | website=Five Easy Pieces | date=13 May 2016 | url=https://archive.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/theatertreffen/events/bfs-mediathek/Theatertreffen/2017/10er-Auswahl/Five-Easy-Pieces | access-date=19 March 2024| quote=Date: 14.5.2017, 14.5.2017, 21.5.2017, 21.5.2017}}

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In 2018 he became the artistic director of NTGent in Ghent, Belgium,{{cite web | last=Lewis | first=Helen | title=Why Isn’t American Theater Like This? | website=The Atlantic | date=4 February 2024 | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/milo-rau-edgy-theater-director/677332/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207140708/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/milo-rau-edgy-theater-director/677332/ | archive-date=7 February 2024 | url-status=live | access-date=18 March 2024}} succeeding the Dutch director Johan Simons.{{citation|title=Milo Rau sagt in Zürich ab – und in Gent zu|date=2017-04-27|url=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/theater/milo-rau-sagt-in-zuerich-ab-und-in-gent-zu/story/29485396|periodical=Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger|language=German|issn=1422-9994|access-date=2017-05-23|surname1=Andreas ToblerMitarbeiter Kultur@tobler_andreas}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ntgent.be/en/ensemble/milo-rau|title=Milo Rau|last=NTGent|date=2020-01-11|website=NTGent|language=en|access-date=2020-01-11}} It was his intention to establish a "global popular theatre", specialising in international tours,{{citation|title="Das ist für mich das Stadttheater der Zukunft"|date=2017-05-11|url=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/theater/Das-ist-fuer-mich-das-Stadttheater-der-Zukunft/story/20903343|periodical=Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger|publication-place=Zürich|language=German|issn=1422-9994|access-date=2017-05-23|surname1=Andreas Tobler}} and upon assuming the directorship he published his 10-point "Ghent Manifesto",{{cite web | title=Milo Rau's plan for European theatre | website=Financial Times|first=Matt |last=Trueman |date= 31 August 2018 | url=https://www.ft.com/content/45c0630a-a17e-11e8-b196-da9d6c239ca8 | access-date=18 March 2024}} in which he declared "It's not just about portraying the world anymore. It's about changing it. The aim is not to depict the real, but to make the representation itself real".{{cite web | title=The Ghent Manifesto | website=NTGent | date=25 August 2023 | url=https://www.ntgent.be/en/wie-zijn-we/the-ghent-manifesto----mission/manifest-missie | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206022404/https://www.ntgent.be/en/wie-zijn-we/the-ghent-manifesto----mission/manifest-missie | archive-date=6 February 2024 | url-status=live | access-date=18 March 2024}}

In 2018, Rau opened his first season at the NTGent with the play Lam Gods, based on the Ghent Altarpiece and developed with his ensemble on the basis of their "Ghent Manifesto".{{Cite web|url=http://international-institute.de/en/the-city-theatre-of-the-future-ghent-manifesto/|title=International Institute of Political Murder » The city theatre of the future – Ghent Manifesto|language=en|access-date=2020-01-12}} In addition, he began the series Goldenes Buch/Golden Book, publishing "programmatic texts about theater, aesthetics, and politics", as well as texts about larger projects at NTGent, in cooperation with the {{Interlanguage link|Verbrecher Verlag|lt=|de||WD=}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.boersenblatt.net/artikel-verbrecher_verlag_startet_neue_reihe.1524432.html|title=Verbrecher Verlag startet neue Reihe / Goldene Bücher von Milo Rau|last=|date=|year=|publisher=|pages=|language=de|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-10-01|quote=|periodical=}}

{{anchor|reprise}}In 2019, an NTGent production of his piece La Reprise. Histoire(s) du théâtre (I), about the homophobic murder of Ihsane Jarfi in Liège in 2012, premiered at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in May 2018. It was also performed at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eif.co.uk/whats-on/2019/reprise|title=La Reprise. Histoire(s) du theatre…|last=Ltd|first=Whitespace (Scotland)|date=2020-01-10|website=Edinburgh International Festival|language=en|access-date=2020-01-11}}{{cite web | last=Billington | first=Michael | title=La Reprise: Histoire(s) du Theatre (I) review – compassion and curiosity in recreation of a murder | website=The Guardian | date=4 August 2019 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/aug/04/la-reprise-histoires-du-theatre-i-review-royal-lyceum-edinburgh | access-date=18 March 2024}} It was the first in the series Histoire(s) du Théâtre created by Rau (its title referring to Jean-Luc Godard's documentary film Histoire(s) du Cinéma).{{cite web | title=Over de serie 'Histoire(s) du Théâtre' | website=NTGent | date=5 October 2023 | url=https://www.ntgent.be/en/productions/over-de-serie-histoires-du-th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre | access-date=18 March 2024}}

{{anchor|antigone}}Rau and his NTGent team travelled to the state of Pará in Brazil, where Amazonian forests are being destroyed and replaced by the cultivation of soy monoculture. In collaboration with the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST; "Landless Workers Movement"), and NTGent, Rau created Antigone in the Amazon, an allegorical play about the impact of the modern state and impact on traditional land rights, which causes huge displacements of people and devastation of culture. Scenes were filmed in Brazil, and the performance combines storytelling, music, film, and theatre, to illustrate its themes of political protest, state brutality, and heroism, based on Sophocles' play Antigone; a Greek tragedy transposed to a modern village in the Amazon. The play premiered in May 2023, before going on tour in Europe.{{cite web | last=Cappelle | first=Laura | title='Antigone in the Amazon' Review: The Drama Is Brazil's Land War | website=The New York Times | date=15 May 2023 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/theater/antigone-in-the-amazon-review.html | access-date=15 March 2024}}{{cite web | title=Antigone in the Amazon | website=NTGent | date=22 January 2024 | url=https://www.ntgent.be/en/productions/antigone-in-the-amazon | access-date=15 March 2024}}{{cite web | title=International Institute of Political Murder » Antigone in the Amazon | website=International Institute of Political Murder | date=17 April 1996 | url=https://international-institute.de/en/antigone-in-the-amazon-wt/ | access-date=15 March 2024}} The play is performed in several languages, with English subtitles for its 2024 run at the Adelaide Festival in Adelaide, South Australia, in March 2024.{{cite web | title=Antigone in the Amazon | website=Adelaide Festival | url=https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/events/antigone-in-the-amazon/ | access-date=15 March 2024}}

Rau stepped down from the role of artistic director in January 2023, although he continues to be involved with NTGent.

In July 2023 he became artistic director of the Vienna Festival.

Alongside his work as a playwright and director, Rau has taught directing, cultural theory, and social sculpture at various universities and conservatories. He was also a regular guest on the Swiss talk show Literaturclub.{{cite web|url=http://www.srf.ch/kultur/literatur/milo-rau-wird-kritiker-im-literaturclub|title=Milo Rau wird Kritiker im "Literaturclub"|last=dpa|date=2016-11-24|publisher=|pages=|language=|format=|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2016-12-14|quote=|periodical=Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)}}

He has also engaged in more overtly political actions, from introducing a self-declared interim government in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and calling for foreigners' right to vote (City of Change).{{citation|title=Blick zurück auf "City of Change"|url=http://www.tagblatt.ch/nachrichten/kultur/Blick-zurueck-auf-City-of-Change;art41,2579017|periodical=St.Galler Tagblatt Online|language=German|access-date=2016-12-14|surname1=St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland}}{{Cite web|url=http://international-institute.de/en/city-of-change-2/|title=International Institute of Political Murder » City of Change|language=en|access-date=2020-01-11}}

Rau's work has earned him invitations to some of the world's largest theatre and arts festivals, including the 2012-2013 Berliner Theatertreffen, the Festival d'Avignon, the Venice Biennale, the Vienna Festival, and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, has been toured in more than 30 countries.

He won the Schweizer Theaterpreis in 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.theaterpreise.ch/en/swiss-theatre-awards/|title=Swiss Theatre Awards|publisher=Theaterpraise.ch|accessdate=15 February 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019042325/http://www.theaterpreise.ch/en/swiss-theatre-awards/|archivedate=19 October 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.theaterpreise.ch/de/archiv/gewinner-2014/milo-rau/|title=Schweizer Theaterpreis 2014 - Milo Rau|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220114837/http://www.theaterpreise.ch/de/archiv/gewinner-2014/milo-rau/|archive-date=2016-12-20|access-date=2016-12-14|quote=|periodical=}} the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden,{{citation|title=Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden - "Hate Radio" überzeugt die Jury|url=http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/hoerspielpreis-der-kriegsblinden-hate-radio-ueberzeugt-die.691.de.html?dram:article_id=289519|periodical=Deutschlandfunk|language=German|access-date=2016-12-14}} and the jury prize of the festival Politik im Freien Theater,{{cite web|url=http://www.politikimfreientheater.de/gratulation-an-milo-rau-und-the-civil-wars/|title=9. Festival Politik im Freien Theater. Gratulation an Milo Rau und Ensemble|last=|date=|year=|publisher=|pages=|language=|format=|url-status=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161213083707/http://www.politikimfreientheater.de/gratulation-an-milo-rau-und-the-civil-wars/|archive-date=2016-12-13|access-date=2016-12-14|quote=|periodical=}} among others, and was the youngest-ever winner of the Preis des {{Interlanguage link|Internationales Theaterinstitut|lt=Internationalen Theaterinstituts|de||WD=}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12145:milo-rau-erhaelt-iti-preis&catid=126&Itemid=100089|title=Sprengstoff der globalen Konflikte. Milo Rau erhält ITI-Preis|last=|date=|year=|publisher=|pages=|language=|format=|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2016-12-14|quote=|periodical=}}

In 2015, the Tages-Anzeiger wrote: "Milo Rau, whose documentary-theatrical explosions regularly fill houses, has managed to cast his art far out of the ivory tower."{{cite web|url=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/theater/realitaetsexzess-oder-theaterrettung/story/26418794|title=Realitätsexzess oder Theaterrettung?|last=|date=|year=|publisher=|pages=|language=|format=|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2016-12-14|quote=|periodical=Tagesanzeiger.ch}}

In 2018, Rau was awarded the XV Europe Prize Theatrical Realities, in Saint Petersburg,{{Cite web |title=XVII EDIZIONE |url=https://www.premioeuropa.org/xvii-edizione/ |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=Premio Europa per il Teatro |language=it-IT}} with the following motivation:

A time when the complexity of the world and the events that characterise the whole planet is being neutralised by a torrent of too-speedy and superficial information, often in the service of economic and political interests, history can become volatile and confused with news items. In this context, Milo Rau's theatre appears as "necessary theatre": by putting its emphasis on events (political, social or other news items) and expanding them, it is forcing us to reflect and understand the realities of today's life, and where our politics, humanity’s ancestral violence, our society and our lives are heading. Rau's work, enriched by his remarkable literary, sociological, journalistic, cinematic and visual experience, is something that can give us hope that a vision that is critical, humanistic, cosmopolitan and throws light on the world can still be conceivable today.{{Cite web |title=Catalogue XVII edition - Europe Theatre Prize |url=https://issuu.com/francescosapuppo/docs/2018_pet_catalog |page=66 |format=PDF}}

Rau has been called "one of the most important and influential personalities in the European theater."{{citation|title=Die Realität ins Theater holen - Steirischer Herbst 2016|date=2016-10-14|url=http://orf.at/steirischerherbst16/stories/2362172/|periodical=News.ORF.at|language=German|access-date=2016-12-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161213083649/http://orf.at/steirischerherbst16/stories/2362172/|archive-date=2016-12-13|url-status=dead}} He has also been variously described as the "most influential" (Die Zeit), "most awarded" (Le Soir), "most interesting" (De Standaard), "most controversial" (La Repubblica), "most scandalous" (New York Times), and "most ambitious" (The Guardian) artist of our time. His controversial work is often accompanied by trials and public debate, bringing him the reputation of a "scandal director".{{citation|title=Skandal-Regisseur Milo Rau: "Meine Pariser Freunde machen Dschihad-Witze"|url=http://www.watson.ch/International/Schweiz/390506162-Skandal-Regisseur-Milo-Rau--%C2%ABMeine-Pariser-Freunde-machen-Dschihadisten-Witze%C2%BB|periodical=Watson|language=German|access-date=2016-12-14}}

Notable reactions to specific performances include:

• Breivik's Statement was banned from performance in Munich's Haus der Kunst in March 2013, which was to be staged as part of the "Radikal Jung" young director festival. Organisers of the festival, Munich Volkstheater, had rented the hall for the performance, but it was unable to be performed owing to "a clause in the rental agreement that excludes right-wing extremist and anti-Semitic content", according to spokesperson Elena Heitsch.{{cite web|url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/buehne-konzert/article114999883/Haus-der-Kunst-verhindert-Breivik-Theaterstueck.html|title=Haus der Kunst verhindert Breivik-Theaterstück: München|date=4 April 2013|language=de|access-date=2016-12-14|periodical=Die Welt}} In 2019, it was not allowed to be performed at the Nationaltheater Weimar as part of a congress organised by Rau, under the title "Power and Dissent".

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• A few days before the planned premiere of The Last Days of the Ceausescus in July 2010 at the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, in 2010, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu's son-in-law Mircea Oprean (the widower of Zoia Ceaușescu, who died in 2006), forced his way into rehearsals, saying that he and his brother-in-law Valentin Ceaușescu had registered the name "Ceauşescu" as a trademark in 2008, and it could not be used in the title. A lawsuit followed, and the director was forced to cancel the show after two performances.{{citation|title=Rumänien: Kafka grüßt die Karpaten|date=13 July 2010|url=http://www.zeit.de/2010/28/Kolumne-Rumaenien|issue=28|periodical=Die Zeit|language=German|first=Christian |last=Schmidt-Häuer| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715052457/http://www.zeit.de/2010/28/Kolumne-Rumaenien| archive-date=15 July 2010| url-status=live}}
• Russian authorities raided his Moscow Trials.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/pussy-riot-stoerung-des-prozesstheaterstuecks-in-moskau/7867822.html|title=Störung des Prozesstheaterstücks in Moskau|website=www.tagesspiegel.de|language=de|access-date=2020-01-12}}
• Performances of Five Easy Pieces were censored or cancelled in Singapore and various German cities.{{citation|title=Milo Raus "Five Easy Pieces": Kein Stück für Kinder|url=http://www.bzbasel.ch/kultur/buch-buehne-kunst/milo-raus-five-easy-pieces-kein-stueck-fuer-kinder-130767611|periodical=Bz Basel|language=German|access-date=2016-12-14}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mousonturm.de/web/de/veranstaltung/five-easy-pieces|title=Abgesagt Five Easy Pieces - Mousonturm|last=|date=|year=|publisher=|pages=|language=|format=|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161213110024/http://www.mousonturm.de/web/de/veranstaltung/five-easy-pieces|archive-date=2016-12-13|access-date=2016-12-14|quote=|periodical=Mousonturm.de}}

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• 2024 Medea's Children
• 2023 Antigone in the Amazon
• 2022 Everywoman, Berlin (theatre)
• 2020 Familie, NTGent (theatre)
• 2019 Oreste in Mosul, Mosul (theatre)
• 2018 La Reprise. Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) (theatre){{efn|First in a series created by Rau, called Histoire(s) du Théâtre; Others in the series include Histoire(s) du Théâtre II (which included a re-enactment of a famous 1970s dance performance by the Congolese National Ballet), directed by Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula; Spanish director Angélica Liddell's In Liebestod - Histoire(s) du Théâtre III; Miet Warlop's Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV: One Song (2022); and English artist and writer Tim Etchells' Histoire(s) du Théâtre V: How Goes The World (2023–24).{{cite web | title=Over de serie 'Histoire(s) du Théâtre' | website=NTGent | date=5 October 2023 | url=https://www.ntgent.be/en/productions/over-de-serie-histoires-du-th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre | access-date=18 March 2024}}}}
• 2017 ''Lenin, Berlin (theatre)
• 2017 The 120 Days of Sodom, Zürich (theatre)
• 2016 Empire, Berlin (theatre, Book)
• 2016 Five Easy Pieces, Ghent (theatre)
• 2016 Compassion: The History of a Machine Gun, Berlin (theatre, radio play)
• 2015 The Dark Ages, Munich (theatre, book)
• 2015 The Congo Tribunal, Berlin/Bukavu (theatre, film, book)
• 2014 The Civil Wars, Brussels/Zürich (theatre, book)
• 2013 The Berlin Dialogues, Berlin (talkshow)
• 2013 The revelation of the real, Berlin (installation, book)
• 2013 The Zurich Trials, Zürich (theatre, film, book)
• 2013 The Moscow Trials, Moscow (theatre, film, installation, book)
• 2012 Breivik's Statement, Weimar/Berlin (lecture performance)
• 2011 Hate Radio, Bregenz/Kigali/Berlin (theatre, film, installation, book, radio play)
• 2010 City of Change, St. Gallen (theatre performance, book, film)
• 2010 Land of Hope, Berlin (Performance)
• 2009 The last days of the Ceausescus, Bucharest/Berlin (theatre, film, book)

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• {{official website|https://international-institute.de/en/news/| International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM)}}
• {{official website| https://www.ntgent.be/en/|NTGent}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150709052444/http://frieze-magazin.de:80/archiv/kolumnen/sinn-aus-gesums/?lang=en Stage Presents], in: Frieze, Issue 10, June–August 2013
• Marshall, Alex. [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/theater/milo-rau-ntgent-controversy.html "Is Milo Rau Really the Most Controversial Director in Theater?"] The New York Times, 3 October 2018.

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