ORATORIO

Date and time: 14 November, 20.00

Place: Sofia Puppet Theatre

Address: Str. “General Yosif V. Gourko” 14

Genre: A collective meditation on a well-kept secret

Language: Performed in German and Bulgarian, with simultaneous English subtitling Duration: 90 min.

Team:

SHE SHE POP /Sebastian Bark, Johanna Freiburg, Fanni Halmburger, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Ilia Papatheodorou, Berit Stumpf/ – idea and concept

Sandra Fox – sets

Lea Søvsø – costumes

Max Knoth – music

Ruschka Steininger – artistic assistant

Sven Nichterlein – technical director & lightdesign

Anne Brammen – production

ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro – communication

Tina Ebert – tour- organization

Elke Weber – company manager

With: SHE SHE POP and a choir of local delegates – Galia Borissova, Silvya Stanoeva, Tsveta Baliyska, Willy Prager, Stefan A. Shtereff, Bratan Bratanov and the musicians Rossen Zahariev-Roko – trumpet and Nikola Petrov – vibraphone; translation on stage: Plamen Harmandjiev and Svetoslava Todorova.

Synopsis:

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.

Together with each choir of local delegates and the 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 of their own for a dialogical theatre show.

After the first showing in Hannover ORATORIO sets off on a tour of Europe to Lublin and ACT

Festival, Sofia, to gather impressions from different economic microcosms and evolve into a great multi-voice meditation.

Organization: SHE SHE POP / Berlin, Germany /

Website: www.sheshepop.de

Tickets online: https://www.epay.bg/v3main/sale/user/view?saleid=1557694187

A production of She She Pop in Co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Festival Theaterformen, Münchner Kammerspiele, Kampnagel Hamburg, Schauspiel Leipzig, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Kaserne Basel, FFT Düsseldorf, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, ACT Independent Theater Festival Sofia, Konfrontacje Teatralne Festival Lublin.

Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and by the City of Berlin – Department for Culture and Europe.

“ORATORIО” is a part of ACT Festival’s program with the special support of Goethe-Institut Bulgarien.