The International Festival Theatre of Things with Action Day will take place from 6 November to 10 November 2024 at Schaubude Berlin, Theater Strahl Ostkreuz, Podewil and Alte Münze Kulturquartier.
Image above: Im Geisterhaus: dressing room © Melanie Bonajo
The centrepiece is the performative exhibition “Geisterhaus”, in which the audience embarks on a journey through all the rooms of the Schaubude Berlin: Six commissioned works search for contemporary ghosts in individually designed experiential spaces. In small groups, viewers experience intense encounters and surprising moments in which the boundary between subject and object is permeable.
The large-scale installation “Dimonis” by the Catalan duo cabosanroque can be experienced at the Theater Strahl Ostkreuz: a sound and image ceremony with percussion on inflatable pool toys, whispering from miniature loudspeakers, beats on an old slatted frame and the spherical dripping of water.
At Podewil and Alte Münze, the festival presents guest performances from Bulgaria, Catalonia, Norway, Ukraine, Hungary and Germany such as “Mitzis Mensch”, a live experiment on Schrödinger’s cat, “03:08:38 – States of Emergency”, the real-time reconstruction of a terror reburn a cathedral strike, or “reburn a cathedral”, an unusual mixture of puppet theatre and dance about destruction and reconstruction.
Mitzis Mensch
The famous thought experiment by Austrian quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger only existed in theory for a long time – until today. In a lecture performance about invisible realities, the magic of puppetry, the theatre stage and PowerPoint is used to shed light on these complex topics.
The relationship between humans and animals, the perception of space and time and the question of whether this perception corresponds to actual reality are addressed. Life is presented as an illusion, with the state between life and death possibly existing simultaneously.
Dimonis
Jacint Verdaguer’s diary entries are still surprisingly relevant today, as they explicitly address topics such as ownership and alienation, the multiplicity of the body, social constructs, pandemic conditions and the way people deal with the world and marginalised bodies. In this sound and image ceremony, the audience is surrounded by percussion, inflatable pool toys, whispers from miniature loudspeakers, beats on an old slatted frame and spherical water drops.
Reburn a chatedral
First the Amazon rainforest burned. Then the Australian bush, Ukraine, California, Greece and Notre Dame in Paris. This was followed by the coronavirus, Black Lives Matter, protests in Minsk, the Polish abortion law and Freeszfe in Hungary. Just as a conflagration relentlessly devours everything, the revolution is also accompanied by destruction. The ensemble of puppeteers and dancers, under the direction of the young director Domokos Kovács, explores the duality of destruction and reconstruction with an intense aesthetic language.
WHEN?
Festival dates: Wednesday, 06. November – Sunday, 10. November 2024
WHERE?
Schaubude Berlin
Greifswalder Straße 81-84
10405 Berlin
Theater Strahl Ostkreuz
Marktstraße 11
10317 Berlin
Podewil
Klosterstraße 68d
10179 Berlin
Alte Münze Kulturquartier
Molkenmarkt 2
10179 Berlin
