mother octopus

In the organizer's words:

Our first relationship experience is with our biological mother. None shapes us as much as this one: We grow up in her womb, it is she who nurtures us. We are one, protected from the world, which has so far only come to us in muted form. Until the abrupt end of our peaceful idyll, the first trauma of our lives, the first act of (maternal?) violence. And thus happy birthday: we are pushed out, squeezed out, torn into the glaring, cold reality. No longer protected from the hands that reach for us.

In mother octopus, two queer performers explore the relationship to their mothers by approaching them through drag. In doing so, they deal autobiographically with the traumas caused by their gender-stereotypical upbringing. In a performative conversation about parenthood, they create a queer-positive family model that invites parents and children, mothers and queers to an intergenerational exchange. In doing so, mother octopus approaches motherhood from a queer-feminist perspective, in which motherhood has no gender and asks: how can mothers and queers be allies in the fight against patriarchy?

Funded by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media and the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung. Supported by Probebühne im Gängeviertel.

Artistic direction, concept, performance: Maciek Martios
Artistic direction, concept, dramaturgy: Amelie Werner
Concept, co-creation, performance: Marco Merenda
Stage couture: Simone Ballüer and Manuel Funk
Sound design: Candid Rütter

Price information:

Ticket prices: VVK: € 19.40, reduced € 12.80 (incl. fees) B.O.: € 21.00, reduced € 13.50