BY VIRGINIE DESPENTES
IN A VERSION BY SOFIA SIMITZIS AND NELE LINDEMANN
BADISCHES STAATSTHEATER 2020
GERMAN PREMIERE
YOUR WORLD IS DISGUSTING. YOUR LOVE OF THE STRONGEST IS SICK. YOUR POWER IS AN EVIL POWER. YOU ARE A BUNCH OF TOXIC MORONS. THE WORLD YOU HAVE CREATED TO REIGN OVER IT IN YOUR SORDIDNESS IS IRRESPIRABLE. WE GET UP AND WE GET OUT. IT´S OVER. WE GET UP. WE GET OUT. WE SCREAM: GO FUCK YOURSELVES.
THE STORY OF A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL, VALENTINE, WHO DISAPPEARED. TWO DETECTIVES ARE SOON SEARCHING FOR HER, INVESTIGATING HER ENVIRONMENT, DRAWING A PORTRAIT OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY. AT THE END VALENTINE BLOWS UP HERSELF AND THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE WITH A UTERUS BOMB.
THE REAL DIFFERENCE IS NOT BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, BUT BETWEEN THE DOMINATORS AND THE DOMINATED, BETWEEN THOSE WHO CONTROL THE NARRATIVE AND IMPOSE THEIR DECISIONS AND THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO GET UP AND GET OUT, SCREAMING.
DIRECTOR: SOFIA SIMITZIS
STAGE AND COSTUME DESIGN: VALENTINA PRIMAVERA
MUSIC: SACHA BENEDETTI
DRAMATURGY: NELE LINDEMANN
PERFORMERS:
UTE BAGGERÖHR
ANTONIA MOHR
SWANA RODE
LISA SCHLEGEL
PHOTOGRAPHS BY FELIX GRÜNSCHLOSS