Accessibility information is currently being compiled and will be added as soon as possible. If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact the communications department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change before the date of the event. If you find out after purchasing your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 (Monday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.) to return your ticket up to 5 working days after the event.

Duration

• Approximately 60 minutes without intermission

Language

• German spoken language
• The performance is very text-heavy in the first half.

Light

• The lighting in the audience and stage area is rather dark.
• In one scene, there is bright light in the audience area.
• There is a flickering effect.

Sound

• There is one loud and sudden sound effect.

Other

• Stage fog is used.
• Water drips from the ceiling throughout the performance.
• There are projections. These include live video recordings and photographs. They are projected onto the columns and a screen.
• Videos, photos, and flickering effects are shown on tube televisions.
• Soap bubbles are produced on stage.

Audience

• Partially seated grandstand
• 2 beanbag seats can be booked subject to availability
• 2 wheelchair spaces can be booked subject to availability

Interaction

• A flashlight will be shone into the audience.

Tickets

• Reservations can be made by calling 030 283 52 66, Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.
• Via the online ticket shop
• At the box office

Further information on accessibility at the venue can also be found here.

Concept, text, performance: Simone Dede Ayivi
Video: Jones Seitz
Sound, music: Johannes Birlinger
Lighting, technical direction: Lou Oelrich
Stage design: Lea Steinhilber
Dramaturgy: Veronika Gerhard
Artistic project collaboration, mediation: Clara Tucholski
Project collaboration, mediation: Christine Daniels
Costume: Mariama Sow
Production management: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Press and public relations: Sarah Rosenau
Access accompaniment: Aidan Riebensahm
Guest: Christo Schleiff
Narrator: Dela Dabulamanzi

A production by Simone Dede Ayivi & Kompliz*innen in co-production with Sophiensæle. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.

Simone Dede Ayivi's performances discuss questions of representation, resistance and community. Her works are biographically motivated, mostly interview-based research projects. She explores ways of remembering and rediscovering - and shines a spotlight on political struggles and movements, Black history and the present. Using recorded discussions, interviews and political speeches, she seeks to amplify the voices of marginalized communities. With Afrofuturistic narratives, she creates a space in the theater to ponder, translate and reinvent. A space for utopias. Dede Ayivi reveals her research methods and the means of theater, allowing the audience to become part of her content-related and aesthetic search process. The construction of images is also addressed and viewing habits are questioned. Together with her Kompliz*innen, she has developed performances in cooperation with the Sophiensæle, the Pavillon Hannover, the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt and the Festival Theaterformen. She has worked as a director at Schauspielhaus Graz, Theater Oberhausen and Deutsches Theater Berlin, among others. In 2022, Simone Dede Ayivi received the Tabori Award from the Fonds Darstellende Künste. In 2025 Simone Dede Ayivi & Komplizinnen is invited to the Impulse Festival for Performance, Theater & Dance with Autsch – Warum geht es mir so dreckig?