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.
Besessen
A collective monologue
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.
Dates
July 3, 2025
Pergine Festival, Pergine May 11, 2024
Polis Teatro Festival, Ravenna June 6, 2023
re:publica, Berlin June 11, 2022
Hangö Teaterträff Finland, Hanko December 15, 2019
Litauisches Nationales Dramatisches Theater, Vilnius December 11, 2019
Litauisches Nationales Dramatisches Theater, Vilnius December 7, 2019
Litauisches Nationales Dramatisches Theater, Vilnius September 7, 2019
at.tension Festival, Lärz November 24, 2018
Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden November 6, 2018
Litauisches Nationales Dramatisches Theater, Vilnius July 1, 2017
Impulse Theaterfestival, Köln June 30, 2017
Impulse Theaterfestival, Köln October 29 – 30, 2016 Premiere
Theaterdiscounter, Berlin