Spill Your Guts: Waiting Room Visions

Description

English version below Performance
Kantine
English
Approx. 50 min. His gut has a voice – and it's relentless. Spill Your Guts is a darkly comic ventriloquist show about a gut gone rogue. Hendrik Quast performs alongside a sharp-tongued dummy embodying his chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Blending theater, comedy and musical, the two argue about shame, undigested leftovers, the medical system and hidden disability. The central question: Who actually holds the interpretive control over the sick body—medicine, the patients, or the disease itself? After premiering Spill Your Guts at the Sophiensæle in 2022, Hendrik Quast returns with Spill Your Guts: Waiting Room Visions — a newly developed English-language performance that will have its premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August. Text, performance, concept, space: Hendrik Quast
Puppet, make-up, costumes: Christina Neuss
Lighting: Maika Knoblich, Hendrik Borowski
Sound: Toben Piel
Coach for ventriloquism: Marcus Geuss
Dramaturgy: Alex Hennig
Artistic collaboration: Florian Fischer
Stage: Jonas Maria Droste
Artistic assistance: Michel Wagenschütz
Based on a translation by: David Tushingham
Production management: Maret Zeino-Mahmalat, Lisa Gehring A production by Hendrik Quast in co-production with Sophiensæle, Kampnagel Hamburg and Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. Funded by the Funding for presentations of existing work by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). Supported by the residency programme Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Schloss Bröllin and Cimma Cità.