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Olympia Bukkakis:
Too Much

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Olympia Bukkakis:
Too Much
Drag/Dance/Performance/Theater
In English and German

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In Too Much Olympia Bukkakis crashes performance against itself. Based on her own experiences as a drag performer, the Queen of the Heavens and of the Earth, Empress of Despair, and Architect of Your Eternal Suffering devotes herself to the special relationship between performer and audience. What role do language and movement conventions play? How do they influence the special dynamic between those who watch and those who act - and who does that exclude? Using her drag skills, Olympia Bukkakis subverts the valid rules and creates personae for the various performance formats: Mistakes from the rehearsal replace virtuosic performance, and between a weather reports, an ancient Greek monologue, a cello solo and a talk show - with Oozing Gloop as special guest - languages are garbled and mixed, assumptions about the audience are dismissed. Performance archetypes are knocked from their pedestals, in order to make room for those locked out of the normative audience/performer relationship. By undertaking the impossible task of conjuring all these varied genres within one single performance, Olympia Bukkakis will create moments of connection, disruption, euphoria, and tragedy.

The play lasts about 90 minutes and does not have a break. It is suitable for audiences aged 16 and older. Some parts are in German, some in English spoken language. There is loud music, which sometimes starts surprisingly. The performance makes use of fog. The lighting situation on stage and in the audience is rather dark with some abrupt light changes. Flickering neon tubes and a moving spotlight are used. It is ok for audience members to move and make sounds. It is possible to leave and return to the room at any point during the show. If you need a break, you can go to the foyer or bar area or to the courtyard (both on the ground floor). They are accessible via the staircase or the elevator. The audience area on the grandstand is seated. There is one beanbag seat that can be reserved by phone or booked via the online ticket shop, if available. The accessibility information will be continuously updated. If you have any questions or need further information, please contact Gina Jeske at jeske@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35.

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Olympia Bukkakis PERFORMANCE Oozing Gloop DRAMATURGY Isabel Gatzke STAGE PAINTING, VIDEO Camille Lacadee COSTUME Jay Barry Matthews SOUND COOL FOR YOU (Vika Kirchenbauer) LIGHT Maika Knoblich PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Paul Niedermayer PRODUCTION Lisa Gehring TEXTS Johann Sebastian Bach, Olympia Bukkakis, Cher, Medea nach Euripides (Paul Dräger), Oozing Gloop, verschiedene Wetterberichte THANKS TO Thierry Tidrow, Purrja, Elena Schmidt, Melanie Jame Wolf, Alexis Mersmann

A production by Olympia Bukkakis in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE, supported by the Capital Cultural Fund. Media partner: taz.die tageszeitung.

OLYMPIA BUKKAKIS, Queen of the Heavens and of the Earth, Empress of Despair, and Architect of Your Eternal Suffering is a drag queen, choreographer, moderator and writer. Originally from Australia, she has lived and worked in Berlin since 2012, organising queer performance events such as Get Fucked, Queens Against Borders and Apocalypse Tonight. After graduating from the SODA Master at HZT in 2019 she presented: Gender Euphoria (2019 Tanztage), Under Pressures (2019 Gessnerallee), Boys Night Out (2020 Melbourne), A Touch of the Other (2020 Risk and Resilience Festival, Sophiensæle) and Too Much (2021 Sophiensæle). Her practice is situated within, and inspired by, the tensions and intersections between queer nightlife, contemporary dance and performance.

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