Flinn Works: Global Belly_Zoom – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Flinn Works:
Global Belly_Zoom
Global Belly_Zoom
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The unfulfilled desire to have children drives couples from Germany and Switzerland abroad. They entrust surrogates in India, the US and Ukraine to deliver their children. These ‘intending parents’ duck legal boundaries and enter unknown moral ground. Flinn Works has undertaken research in all five countries in order to gain a deeper understanding of gestational surrogacy. Is it a blessing of modern medicine or a neocolonial act? Is bearing the child of a stranger work or charity? How do we compensate this ‘labour of love’? Since transnational surrogacy became illegal in countries such as India and Thailand, follicles, embryos and surrogates are being flown around the globe. Where the desire for a child meets biotechnology, children will find a way into the world. So they exist and they need passports. But which ones? Global Belly portrays people embroiled in the surrogacy industry. Professional agents meet content surrogates and argumentative feminists encounter loving fathers-to-be. With its ethical complexity and emotional polarisation, its legal grey zones and its medical realities the industry comes alive on the Zoom stage. Flinn Works’ immersive and interactive stage play (2017) has toured widely to critical acclaim. The Zoom version is new, updated and addresses a global online-audience.
PERFORMANCE Anne Hoffmann, Matthias Renger, Sonata, Jennifer Lynn Tune, Crystal Travis, Lea Whitcher RECHERCHE Team Global Belly DIRECTOR Sophia Stepf CONTENT CONSULTATION Dr. Anika König DESIGN Philine Rinnert MUSIC Jörg-Martin Wagner VIDEO Marc Jungreithmeier ZOOM ENGINEERING Konradin Kunze ASSISTANT Alice Harrison PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Marit Buchmeier, Lisanne Grotz / xplusdrei Production Office
Global Belly_Zoom is a production by Flinn Works in coproduction with SOPHIENSÆLE. The revival is supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
FLINN WORKS produces performances on current issues of the globalised world with feminist and post-colonial perspectives. At SOPHIENSÆLE they recently presented Learning Feminism from Rwanda (2020), with Asedeva Fear + Fever (2019) and Kosa la Vita - Kriegsverbrechen (2018). Flinn Works received the 2021 Tabori Award from the Fonds Darstellende Künste.