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Description

Between renovating her motel room, cotton candy dreams, and encounters with older women, Miranda July's protagonist breaks patriarchal concepts of femininity and desire. In an intimate diary format and with gentle wit, the novel delves deeply into the power and creativity of female self-empowerment. July's celebrated novel tells of a 45-year-old artist who sets out not to survive the change of life but to thrive in it – with everything that entails: desire, doubt, pain, and liberation. Instead of the classic coming-of-age story, we experience a coming-of-change: a late awakening that is radically present and future-oriented. The feminist artist collective storytelling engines brings July's radical prose to the stage as a lively scenic reading. With wit and resistance, three performers tell of a woman who stops functioning – and by doing so, begins to live. What if the end is the beginning? What if the second half of life is very different from what we think? FORMAT / CONCEPT / PERFORMANCE Lucy Wirth / Tjadke Biallowons / Isabella Bartdorff
SET DESIGN Christina Berger OUTSIDE EYE Tom Schneider STORYTELLING ENGINES is an artist collective based in Freiburg and Munich, connected by an interest in cooperative working methods and an expanded theater concept that makes the division into genres permeable and processes various materials and themes into politically relevant theater evenings with a feminist focus. With the comic adaptation of ICH FÜHL’S NICHT by Liv Strömquist, the collective performed for the first time in Berlin and received enthusiastic applause at TD multiple times.

Highlights

• Lively scenic reading of Miranda July's novel
• With wit and resistance by three performers
• Addresses female self-empowerment and the change of life

General Information

The event takes place at TD Berlin and is presented by the artist collective storytelling engines. It brings July's prose to the stage and addresses the coming-of-change of a 45-year-old artist.

Location

Klosterstraße 44, 10179 Berlin, Germany

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