There are allusions to drug and alcohol consumption and interpersonal violence in the play.

The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).

Duration

• 100 minutes without intermission

Language

• No language

Light

• The lighting mood is alternately bright and dark.
• There are abrupt changes of light.

Sound

• There is a continuous backdrop of electronic music.
• Music is sometimes played very loudly.
• There are very intense basses.

Other

• Smoking is permitted on stage.

Stage

• The stage floor is covered with peat.
• Stage fog is used.

Audience

• Seated grandstand
• 2 beanbag seats bookable subject to availability
• 2 wheelchair spaces bookable subject to availability

Early boarding

There will be a long admission. Doors open 15 minutes before the show.

Tickets

• Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
• Via the online ticket shop
• At the box office

You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.

To Kerstin

Conception, choreography, scenography: Gisèle Vienne
Assistance: Anja Röttgerkamp, Nuria Guiu Sagarra
Music selection: Underground Resistance, KTL, Vapour Space, DJ Rolando, Drexciya, The Martian, Choice, Jeff Mills, Peter Rehberg, Manuel Göttsching, Sun Electric, Global Communication
Edits, playlist selection: Peter Rehberg, Gisèle Vienne
Sound: Adrien Michel
Light design: Patrick Riou
Character development texts: The performers in collaboration with Dennis Cooper & Gisèle Vienne
Performers: Philip Berlin, Morgane Bonis, Sylvain Decloitre, Sophie Demeyer, Vincent Dupuy, Nuria Guiu Sagarra, Rehin Hollant, Oskar Landström, Maeva Lassere, Theo Livesey, Maya Masse, Audrey Merilus, Louise Perming, Katia Petrowick, Jonathan Schatz
Costumes: Gisèle Vienne in collaboration with Camille Queval and the performers
Technical coordination: Samuel Dosière
Sound engineer: Adrien Michel
Stage management: Antoine Hordé
Light management: Iannis Japiot
Production, touring: Alma Office, Anne-Lise Gobin, Camille Queval
Administration: Cloé Haas, Clémentine Papandrea

A cooperation between Haus am Waldsee, Georg Kolbe Museum and Sophiensæle. The project is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Phileas - The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, Ministère de la Culture, Institut Français and Trampoline. 

The guest performance of CROWD is a collaboration with euro-scene Leipzig. 

A production of DACM in co-production with Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg, Scène européenne, Wiener Festwochen, Le Manège, scène nationale - Reims, Théâtre National de Bretagne - Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique, Centre Dramatique National Orléans, Centre-Val de Loire, La Filature, Scène nationale - Mulhouse, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen. With the support of Centre Chorégraphique national de Grenoble / CN D Centre national de la danse. The Company Gisèle Vienne is supported by Ministère de la culture et de la communication - DRAC Grand Est, la Région Grand Est and Ville de Strasbourg. The Company Gisèle Vienne is supported for international touring by Institut Français.

Gisèle Vienne is a Franco-Austrian artist, choreographer, and theatre and film director. Since her childhood, she was trained in visual arts by her mother, Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak. She studied dance and music, philosophy, and puppeteering. Over the past twenty years, her work, among them the productions Showroomdummies (2001/2009/2013/2020), I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), This Is How You Will Disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011), The Ventriloquists Convention (2015) in collaboration with Puppentheater Halle, Crowd (2017), L’Etang (2021), and EXTRA LIFE (2023, invited to Theatertreffen Berlin 2024), has been touring in Europe, Asia, and America. Vienne has frequently exhibited her photographs and installations in museums, among them the Whitney Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. She has published two books: JERK/Through Their Tears with Jonathan Capdevielle, Dennis Cooper, and Peter Rehberg in 2011 and 40 PORTRAITS (2003–2008), in collaboration with Dennis Cooper and Pierre Dourthe in 2012. Her work has led to various publications and the original music of her shows to several albums. A new publication - This Causes Consciousness to Fracture - dedicated to the collaborative work of Gisèle Vienne and Estelle Hanania, with a text by Elsa Dorlin and an afterword by Anna Gritz, will be published by Haus am Waldsee together with Spector Books in fall 2024.