Women in trouble (2017)
by Susanne Kennedy (DE)
in collaboration with Suzan Boogaerdt and Bianca van der Schoot (NL)
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The stage turns. Angelina Dreem One is wearing a latex mask complete with long black hair. She sits on a sofa, characterised by high-gloss reality TV aesthetics, and reclines in a pose. The stage continues to turn. A second set contains fitness equipment and a spa area; Angelina Dreem Two moves through a tomographic scanner.
Angelina Dreem’s life is a soap opera. But her life is also real. Angelina Dreem is sick. She has cancer. Throughout the play, new Doppelgängers of her continually appear, falling from one rabbit-hole reality into the next. Growing older; being a woman; remaining oneself; exorcising oneself again. Women in Trouble explores if there is anything left to learn. Could the next life be a better one?
Direction, text: Susanne Kennedy
With: Suzan Boogaerdt, Marie Groothof, Niels Kuiters, Julie Solberg, Anna Maria Sturm, Bianca van der Schoot, Thomas Wodianka
Stage: Lena Newton
Costumes: Lotte Goos
Video: Rodrik Biersteker
Sound Design: Richard Janssen
Foto: Julian Röder
Premiere:
Volksbühne Berlin, 2017