This year, the members of She She Pop will all be about 50. In Hexploitation they explore the fear of the ‘hag’ – the old woman and witch. The performers will be using their ageing bodies for this purpose: to fight against the invisibility and loss of status that women suffer in society when they are no longer of childbearing age. To this end, they lock themselves and the audience in a mise en scène reminiscent of a low-lit, kitschy film-set from which there is no escape.

With andcompany&Co., Gob Squad, Rimini Protokoll, She She Pop
Moderation: Florian Malzacher and Aenne Quiñones

The series “Postdramatisches Theater in Portraits” (Postdramatic Theatre in Portraits, Alexander Verlag Berlin) is dedicated to the development of a new theatre practice since the 1990s. For the first time, the history of outstanding actors of post-dramatic theatre in German-speaking countries is told in the form of monographs. The editors of the series are Florian Malzacher, Aenne Quiñones and Kathrin Tiedemann.

Property changes consciousness. It divides friends, gives one person power over others and excludes. Property is taken forgranted. And people don’t talk about it. Nothing is so constitutive of our society, or our lives together; nothing has such a divisive effect on our community as property.

She She Pop steps forward to elicit a new meaning of “theatre without an audience”. As proposed in Brechtian Lehrstück theory, those on stage try different attitudes and give speeches. In the Possessed monologue, a polyphonic monologue can be heard, whereby the community has its say.

Dance Me! is a dance marathon between two competing generations. The stage is an arena in which She She Pop and guests take on the role of the elderly; the others are a group of young performers. Mutual incomprehension, otherwise known as the generation gap, is brought to the stage and celebrated in a strict dance ritual.

The Summer Camp Academy is organized in collaboration with Komuna/Warszawa, La Comedie de Clermont Ferrand and the Epidaurus Festival in Athens as part of Creative Europe’s project “In Search of a Home – Ithaca”.

This She She Pop Workshop was funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of “NEUSTART KULTUR.”