KILLJOYS

The production, which emerged from an in-depth engagement with the work of artist Louise Bourgeois, explores the perspectives of three figures: Ophelia, Scheherazade, and Arachne—weavers, storytellers, creators, and spinners. How can they stop (re)producing their canon and develop their own, self-determined identity? 
Killjoys counters the capitalist principle of solidification with the concept of fluidity: a constant groping, interrupting, and rearranging. A play about the joy of disruption and the power to repeatedly chew through rigid systems in order to set them in motion and make them negotiable.

(Third-year workshop production, theme: Endangered Presents)

 

PIA KARIUS *1997 in Jever, initially studied Performing Arts in Hildesheim before transferring to the directing program at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg in 2023. She is a co-founder of the performance collective Der Kunstkomplex. In her
directing work, she explores feminist and socio-political
themes and seeks ways to make them sensually tangible.

Text by Pia Karius, Lilly Rößler, Linus Lenke

Set design by Isabel Winter

Costume design by Felicitas Kudlich-Itzinger, Lola Vorläufer

Dramaturgy by Linus Lenke, Lilly Rößler

Live music by Vincent Ruhl

Puppet construction by Merle Smalla

With Lena Karius, Melanie Nguyên Pietsch, M. Amin Zariouh