By and with: She She Pop, Sebastian Bark, Johanna Freiburg, Fanni Halmburger, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Ilia Papatheodorou, Berit Stumpf and the Choir of locale Delegates / Choir of delegates in Berlin: Saioa Alvarez Ruiz, Majd Assassa, Jean Chaize, Antonio Cerezo, Brigitte Cuvelier, Peggy Mädler, Susanne M. Scholl, Wenke Seemann, Janek Sobolewski / Set Design: Sets / Costumes: Lea Søvsø / Music: Max Knoth / Artistic collaboration production: Ruschka Steininger / Artistic collaboration touring: Laia Ribera, Alisa Tretau / Dramaturgical collaboration: Peggy Maedler, Annett Gröschner / Trompete: Richard Koch / Vibraphone: Olli Bott, Karl Ivar Revseth, Maria Schneider, Marc Gosemärker / Technical Director & Light Design: Sven Nichterlein / Light: Andreas Kröher / Production: Anne Brammen / English live translation: Ellen Gallagher / Communication: ehrliche arbeit - freies Kulturbüro / Tour Organization: Tina Ebert / Administration: Aminata Oelßner / Company Management: Elke Weber
She She Pop
Oratorio – A collective meditation on a well-kept secret
Part of “Who owns the world?”
- Theatre
German /
With English live translation /
approx. 100 mins.
“Let it belong to those it is good for.” (B. Brecht)
Property changes consciousness. It divides friends, gives one person power over others and excludes. Property is taken for granted. And people don’t talk about it. Nothing is so constitutive of our society, or our lives together; nothing has such a divisive effect on our community as property. With “Oratorium”, She She Pop wants to air the secret of property, to drag it out onto a stage.
It is said that Western theatre began with the protagonist Thespis, who stepped out from the choir 2,500 years ago. But you could also say: it was the moment that the stage was privatised. Since then, the individual has been consistently overrated, overburdened and emotionally exploited. “Oratorium” would like to shed some light on the context of the bourgeois public, property and democratic empowerment.
Together with each choir of local delegates and their audience, She She Pop will start a discussion on property and examine their own relationship to ownership, the distribution of goods and its related problems. Inspired by Brecht’s Lehrstücktheorie, they develop rules for a dialogical theatre show and form discordant speaking choruses, which renegotiate with each performance how we deal with property. Who is allowed to speak? Who is present, who is represented? A collective monologue emerges from the diversity of voices, discord, and occasional, momentary harmony.
“Oratorium” is a work-in-progress, which will premiere in 2018 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. First showings took place at Theaterformen 2017 in Hanover and subsequently also at the Konfrontacje Teatralne Festival in Lublin and the ACT Independent Theatre Festival Sofia. Now ORATORIO returns from its tour through Europe, during which it gathered momentary impressions of other economic microcosms and evolved intoa great polyphonic meditation at each stop along the way.
In 2019, She She Pop have been invited to the Theatertreffen in Berlin with their “Oratorium”. The statement from the jury reads: “One doesn’t talk about money. The performance collective She She Pop doesn’t bother with that rule, making private property, inequality and shame the topic of their piece. … She She Pop turns the audience into a choir with multiple voices. As always with She She Pop the political lies in the private, in biographical material.”
Cast
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Further Information
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Credits
Production: She She Pop. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin,Festival Theaterformen, Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Kaserne Basel, Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, FFT Düsseldorf, Konfrontacje Teatralne Festival Lublin, ACT Independent Theater Festival Sofia.
Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and by the City of Berlin – Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Premiere, February 2018, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin.
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