DER KREIS

In the organizer's words:

Participatory performance at Chlodwigplatz
Thematic series Common Struggles
Co-production Drama Köln & FWT

What happens if we let the digitally sharpened camp formations emerge analog and real? What would it be like if we decide for ourselves what and how we position ourselves? In the real world and face to face?
The circle is a performative invitation to position ourselves publicly together. The group of participants and performers constantly generates new "we "s in front of an urban backdrop. We without children. We with money. We with a cheap rental contract. We without you. You without us.

The participants can expect a setting in the middle of a public square and yet protected by a game, by the soundtrack that carries them through the evening. Open to the outside, yet protected on the inside by the rules of the game.
Someone leaves the circle and someone goes into its center. Others join them. All those who have never been envious of their neighbors stand up. All those who have never lied come to me, I am hovering above the ground on the Chlodwigplatz.
Following a simple formula, an open evening is created. Elements are flexible, dynamics are found together with the participants, reaching culminations, condensations. But pausing again and again at fixed, secure pivot points, being together in the here and now promises genuine empathy.
All those who have ever gone to the toilet in the bar just to look at themselves in the mirror, please look in the mirror with me.

With Oliver Bedorf, Justine Hauer, Andreas Maier, Emily Allan | Concept: Philine Velhagen | Set: Cordula Körber | Dramaturgy: Nina Rühmeier | Sound & Technology: Nolle Woida

The performance will not take place at the Freie Werkstatt Theater, but at Chlodwigplatz in Cologne.

Meeting point at the elevator of the Chlodwigplatz subway station in Cologne's Südstadt district.
Admission on a donation basis. Registration at karten@fwt-koeln.de or by booking a 0-euro ticket via rausgegangen.de. Participants will receive headphones for participation against a deposit of €10.00 in cash.

Price information:

Admission on a donation basis, registration required in advance at the FWT on 0221-327817 or karten@fwt-koeln.de or by booking a 0-euro ticket here on rausgegangen.de. Participants will receive headphones for participation against a deposit of €10.00 in cash.