Simone Dede Ayivi & Kompliz*innen: Homecooking – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Simone Dede Ayivi & Kompliz*innen:
Homecooking
Simone Dede Ayivi and accomplices fire up the stove. They have met to cook and have collected recipes, shopping lists and entire kitchens. All this with the accompanying stories about family connections and processes of detachment, culinary integration compulsion, fake fufu, the hummus paradox and Köfte exoticism. Together with the audience, they position themselves vis-à-vis the German aversion to caraway and garlic, hack the potato system and open a barrel or two more. They present hard-to-digest fare as light fare and look into each other's pots. Together they write the theatrical cookbook of our culinary migration heritage and ask: What will we cook tomorrow?
In Homecooking, Simone Dede Ayivi takes the stage as a performer in the kitchens. In video and audio pieces, people from different communities, generations and places share their stories and recipes.
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CONCEPT, PERFORMANCE Simone Dede Ayivi STAGE, COSTUME Charlotte Pistorius VIDEO Jones Seitz DRAMATURGY Bahar Meriç SOUND, MUSIC Johannes Birlinger LIGHTING Susana Alonso TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT Maria Herles PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Selma Böhmelmann, Charlotte Rosengarth STAGE IMAGE ASSISTANCE Yasmin Alt COOKS Atiye Altül, Jeff Hollweg, Dan Thy Nguyen, Nadia Shehadeh und Efia PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT ehrliche arbeit - Freies Kulturbüro TECHNICAL PRODUCTION Gefährliche Arbeit
A production by Simone Dede Ayivi and Kompliz*innen in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE and the Festival Theaterformen. Funded by the basic funding of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Performing Arts Fund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The revival is supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR. Media partner: taz, die tageszeitung
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?
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