50th Year Contemporary Puppetry
“No one ever had to tell me I was different.” With these words, Juno describes in her diary the entire unbearable, unspoken misery of her existence as a girl who feels increasingly alienated from herself and her surroundings.
Her “invisibility” offers her a comforting, albeit lonely, refuge, allowing her to move through the world like a friendly ghost—mostly unnoticed, sometimes at least tolerated as a harmless presence. Only her new friend Cosma observes her closely. And she asks precisely the unspoken questions that have clogged the lines of communication in Juno’s family for years: Why is your father strange? Are you ashamed of him? Is he ashamed of you? And: What happened to your mother?
“…if my superpower is being invisible, her superpower is seeing the invisible.”
Her “invisibility” offers her a comforting, albeit lonely, refuge, allowing her to move through the world like a friendly ghost—mostly unnoticed, sometimes at least tolerated as a harmless presence. Only her new friend Cosma observes her closely. And she asks precisely the unspoken questions that have clogged the lines of communication in Juno’s family for years: Why is your father strange? Are you ashamed of him? Is he ashamed of you? And: What happened to your mother?
“…if my superpower is being invisible, her superpower is seeing the invisible.”
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VISUAL Szenenstudium Großpuppe
HISTORIANS WILL SAY THEY WERE BEST FRIENDS
A devised piece with large puppets that explores secret love, queerness, and the unsettling changes of self during puberty. Inspired by body horror pastel drawings by Shintaro Kago and Jackson Howell, the anime series Sailor Moon, and the songs Hayloft I and II by the band Mother.
GHOSTS ARE JUST PEOPLE TOO by Katja Brunner
In the everyday machinery of care, the residents of a nursing home develop bizarre tactics to cope with their own advancing physical decline. Thinking remains the biggest obstacle. The past swells, aches, and festers the present. Longings shatter dreams. Then comes bitterness and with it, devastating loneliness. The daily struggle with the nursing staff provides some diversion. Things can't go on like this.
Things shouldn't stay the way they are. But where strength is exhausted, the weak can only rebel. And who is even listening? Where is the audience, and is there anything to laugh about here? A collage of fragments of text from people in the final stages of their lives.
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Dates
February 2026
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