Besessen

People are obsessed with ideas – but also with things. For the Monologue Festival, She She Pop follows the idea of ownership, which has become an eerily important subject in people’s coexistence: if you have nothing, you have to hire yourself out. But even those who own too much, so people say, become obsessed by it. There it is: the community of the possessed.
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. A community that is concerned about ownership and the resulting distortions. In speech, it confirms itself, yet establishes that it is at odds with itself.

Credits

By She She Pop (Sebastian Bark, Johanna Freiburg, Fanni Halmburger, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Ilia Papatheodorou und Berit Stumpf.) Artistic advice: Ruschka Steininger. Support Production: Alisa Tretau. PR: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro. Communication and Production: Tina Ebert. Company Management and Administration: Aminata Oelßner, Elke Weber.

A production by She She Pop and Theaterdiscounter – Monologue Festival 2016. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin.

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