IN COOPERATION WITH COBRATHEATER.COBRA
World Premiere

Text: Corinna Sigmund
Direction: Martin Grünheit
Design: Imke Paulick
Light & technology: Bene Neustein
With: Laura Schuller
Duration: 60 min.
Age: 14+

Wed, April 22 - 2.00 PM & 8.00 PM
Thu, April 23 - 10.00 AM & 2.00 PM
GRIPS Podewil
in German with English surtitles

Our body changes every day. We check its image in daily rituals. The performer Laura Schuller embarks on a journey of discovery into the body. She shines a light on both herself and the audience. A projection of her nose appears on the screen. She climbs into her own nostril! The audience is asked what sort of body they want, or if they’ve already had sex. The blatant embarrassment is part of the show, including jokes about minority groups. The search for forceful and liberating body images becomes an exciting experience.

A Body Image is a solo performance that explores the complexity of the human body using media disruptions and a number of voices. The show takes great pleasure in the visible transformations of space and body and the skilful use of a live camera.

The director Martin Grünheit founded cobratheater.cobra alongside Juliane Hahn and Wanja van Suntum in 2008. It is simultaneously an artists’ network and a label. At the moment their production centres are in Hildesheim and Hamburg. They not only work on theatre shows but also short films, installations and video art.
The Theater Marabu GbR was set up in 1993 by Tina Jücker and Claus Overkamp. It is a professional fringe theatre for young audiences with its own playing venue in the Brotfabrik arts centre in Bonn. Two productions by the Theater Marabu were invited to Augenblick mal! in 2013.

http://www.theater-marabu.de/
http://www.cobratheatercobra.com/

>> click here to read the vote by the curator
Melanie Suchy for "A Body Image"

 

Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Guest Performance Fund for Theater, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Departments of Culture and Arts of the German federal states.

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