“𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗦:𝗪𝗜𝗥 – 𝗔 𝗡𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻”
31. May 2025 and June 1, 2025, Berlin, Ballhaus Prinzenallee
6. June and 7. June 6 and 7, 2025, Bayreuth, Reichshof, Maximilianstr. 28
“𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒:𝐖𝐈𝐑 – 𝐀 𝐍𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” is a performative reply to this and way more — not from within the centre of Europe, but without it – from West African, Persian, and Romani storytelling traditions. From biographies that have learned to breathe under the weight of the archive. They play is a decolonial stage-body.
In a radically composed score, sonnets, myths, political manifestos and oral wisdoms collide to form a multilingual resonant space. The performers do not appear as characters — they speak through them. Othello, Caliban, Cleopatra, and Lucy emerge as echoes of colonial projection — and as fierce reverberations of old and contemporary struggles for visibility, dignity, and belonging.
Afrofuturist poetry meets Persian love verses, Romani history meets Elizabethan pathos.
Everything speaks. Everything answers.
<𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘺
@nanda.gamarra , ,𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘮𝘦 >
Director: Mx CAT
@mxcat.mxcat
Assistant director: Cat Jones
@bycatjones
Dramaturgy: Aleo Arndt
@aleo.is.not.a.leo Ife Aboluwade
Acting:
Roxie Thiele Dogan
@roxi____love
Ruby Engel
@mahamganfi
Mehrdad Gharibian mehrdad_gharibian
Danya Harvey
@seigerecht
Marshall Vincent
@marshallvincent.flac
Ännie Krippner
@a_n_n_c_h_a
Music: Trace
Stage|Graphics: Noah Osarenren
@noahosarenren
Costumes: Periklis
@copperkidd3000
Lighting design: Sol Sebastian Solorzano
@sol.lx
Sound: LegalMoney Studio
@legalmoney.studio
Project management: Aleo Arndt
Production and funding:
Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple. Reconfiguring African Studies”
Co-production: Ballhaus Prinzenallee Berlin | QUEERDOS Kollektiv
Photos: Papa De
@aconstantbecoming