Meat Loaf, the Body. Meat Loaf, the Artist. Meat Loaf, the Indestructible Force. Meat Loaf. Dancer. Actor. Rocker. Patriarch. Macho. Super-Uber-Animal. Lone wolf and fat kid «who would do anything for love». Is he the embodiment of decadent tenderness meets beast incarnate transformed into an all-consuming force of nature? His desire is demanding, challenging and immortal: Would I rather be Meat Loaf or the woman at his side? Julia Gräfner and Anna Wille explore the fascinating persona of Meat Loaf in a solo show developed in collaboration with Cora Frost. Oscillating between role-play and ego shoot, they engage in a game of intimacy and melancholy, of physicality and brute force. A sharp incision into the flesh of the Super-Uber-Animal. A evening of breathing and sweating, of eroticism and physicality, of masculinity, femininity, of brute force and the EGO in the Meat.

cONcEPT, PROJEct-development Julia Gräfner, Anna Wille with Julia Gräfner co-development Cora Frost TEChnical management Hunor von Horvarth

A production of Julia Gräfe and Anna Wille. In the scope of the master program Scenic Arts Practice of the Hochschule der Künste Bern. Funded by Bürgi Willert Stiftung and Ernst Göhner Stiftung, with support of Konzert Theater Bern. In cooperation with Werkstattmacher Leipzig e.V., funded by the City of Leipzig, cultural office. media partner: taz.die tageszeitung.

photos © A. Boutellier