CROWD CONTROL shows police practices and the simulation of violence in the context of police training.

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

• Approximately 75 minutes without intermission.

Language

• German spoken language with English surtitles.
• German written language on a screen with English surtitles.

Light

• The lighting is rather dark.
• The stage area is mostly illuminated.
• There are slow lighting changes.

Sound

• There are loud chants.

Sensitive content

• The performance depicts police practices and the simulation of violence in the context of police training. This includes, among other things, reenactments of the use of physical force, batons, and pepper spray.
• Sexist and queerphobic language is reproduced.

Audience

• Seated grandstand
  Two beanbag seats bookable according to availability
  Two wheelchair spaces bookable according to availability

Early boarding

There will be a long admission. Doors open 10 minutes before the start of 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.

With: Lara Maria Humm, Jan Jaroszek, Toni Jessen, Wael Kreiker, Leonie Krieg, Cy Linke, Lukas Lüdeking
Concept, research, set design, direction: Oliver Zahn
Text: Oliver Zahn and the ensemble
Dramaturgy: Felizitas Stilleke
Technical design, lighting: Dennis Dita Kopp
Artistic production management: Martina Neu
Press and public relations: Kerstin Böttcher

A production by Oliver Zahn in co-production with Sophiensæle and HochX. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Co-financing Fund Berlin, the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the City of Munich – Department of Culture. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.

Oliver Zahn is a theatre-maker and performer. His choreographic performance-essays are always rooted in extensive research—ethnographic, archival, and embodied self-experiments. His previous works include Situation mit ausgestrecktem Arm (2015, exploring the cultural history of the “Hitler salute” gesture); the Tanzfonds Erbe production Zweiter Versuch über das Turnen (presented as the main act at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, examining German identity and the notion of belonging to the “Volkskörper” through the history and practice of the German gymnastics movement); and Lob des Vergessens (on forgetting as a productive social practice), along with its online desktop continuation, Lob des Vergessens, Teil II. In December 2024, the solo performance Reinheit (about compulsion, hygiene, and security) premiered in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost. Oliver Zahn’s works have been featured at major festivals in the German-speaking region (including Tanzplattform, steirischer herbst, Donaufestival, SPIELART, Kampnagel Sommerfestival, and multiple editions of IMPULSE) and venues such as HAU, Sophiensæle, Mousonturm, PACT Zollverein, FFT, Tanzhaus NRW, Hellerau, Kaserne Basel, and Münchner Kammerspiele. Internationally, his works have toured Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, the UK, Poland, France, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Tunisia, the West Bank, and India.