Bühnenbeschimpfung

In the organizer's words:

The author Sivan Ben Yishai is one of the most important voices on contemporary theater stages. Con/tempus (contemporary), means to exist or occur in the present / to be in time with others - which in a way is the research question of this new text. At the Maxim Gorki Theater, her plays The Story of the Life and Death of the New Juppi Ja Jey Juden, Papa Loves You, and Or: You Deserve Your War (Eight Soldiers Moonsick) premiered. Now she switches her gaze from backstage - writing for the institution, within the institution. Her new piece Bühnenbeschimpfung (Don't I Love It Anymore or Do I Love It Too Much?) consisting of the parts "The Body as Institution," "The Theatrical Evening as Institution," and "The Future Reconstructed on an Adjacent Site," deals with the institution of theater in a radical way - growing (literally) far beyond and out of it. After two years in which the theater halls remained empty and unattended, Bühnenbeschimpfung is an open surgery on the body of the institution. Sivan Ben Yishai uses the institution of theater as a starting point to ask fundamental questions about power, autocracy and the stage, obedience, spectatorship and resistance, and the way they come to light in the body, in the theatrical evening, in the theater itself. Woven into these reflections is a multi-perspective chorus, with voices from Masha Gessen, Donna Haraway, Michel Foucault, Paul B. Preciado, Ta-Nehisi-Coates and many others - who may not be able to save us - but what if they could? The production will be directed by Sebastian Nübling, a long-time in-house director who has brought many contemporary authors to the stage, and who will use the text to examine what political theater can be today and what attempts past generations have made to change and break up social structures by means of theater. SEE TRAILER World premiere on 17/December 2022 Performance rights: Suhrkamp Verlag AG Photo: Esra RotthoffStage photos: Ute Langkafel This content has been machine translated.