LANGUAGE: Italian
DURATION: 45 minutes
TICKETS: €13 full price, €10 reduced price
People are obsessed with ideas — but also with things.
She She Pop, one of the most acclaimed independent companies in Europe, addresses the issue of ownership, which is now more than ever at the center of contemporary life.
Those who have nothing are forced to give of themselves. But even those who have too much, it is said, end up being obsessed with it.
Thus the community of the possessed is born.
Possessed is a collective monologue: a chorus of voices that question, clash and contradict each other.
Phrases projected on a large screen invite the audience to take a stand.
The theatre reinvents itself: there is no passive audience or actors on stage.
There is a community that exposes itself, confronts itself, takes the floor.
A confused, divided, but alive community — that reflects on ownership and the distortions it generates. An original and surreal experience, which one rarely has the opportunity to live.
IN A NUTSHELL
Possessed is an original and surreal theatrical experience, where the audience becomes the protagonist. A chorus of voices, a large screen, no actors: just a community that questions the meaning of ownership.
By She She Pop (Sebastian Bark, Johanna Freiburg, Fanni Halmburger, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Ilia Papatheodorou and Berit Stumpf)
Pergine version of the text Riccardo Tabilio
Artistic consultancy Ruschka Steininger, Riccardo Tabilio
PR & Communication Ehrliche arbeit – freelance office for culture
Communication Tina Ebert
Production Tina Ebert, Aminata Oelßner, Elke Weber
Company manager Aminata Oelßner, Elke Weber
Translation Abbagnato Michela, Barbaro Asia, Fusco Marianna, Lazzarin Giorgia, Lu Hui Jing, Maccaglia Giorgia, Fenini Martina, Lio Miriana, Mazzella Maria, Dalla Pozza Chiara, Pozza Sandy, Presti Angela, Ramelli Giulia, Salvatore Marta, Sangiovanni Emma, Soldani Irene with the supervision of Prof.ssa Adele D’Arcangelo, University of Bologna – Department of Interpretation and Translation and Riccardo Tabilio
Production She She Pop and Theaterdiscounter – Monologue Festival 2016. Founded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin. With the support of Polis Teatro Festival, Ravenna
Photo Benjamin Krieg
She She Pop is a performing arts collective founded in the late 1990’s by a group of graduates of the “Applied Theater Studies” in Gießen. It has been based in Berlin since 1998. The members — including Sebastian Bark, Johanna Freiburg, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Ilia Papatheodorou, Berit Stumpf and producer Elke Weber — consider themselves authors, playwrights and performers of their own works. Autobiographical material is used as a creative method, within a highly experimental theatrical practice.
The stage becomes a space of utopian communication, where languages, structures and social rituals are put to the test. Since 2003 they have been working steadily with HAU Hebbel am Ufer and with numerous international partners.
Among their best-known works: Testament (2010), Schubladen (2012), Ende (2014), 50 Grades of Shame (2016), Besessen (2016), The Ocean is Closed (2017) and Oratorio (2018).
At the end of the show, an aperitif will be offered by Proposta Vini to the audience, both male and female.
