21 — 31 OCT
2021

Program

Viewers can witness multiple monologues and specials directly one after another and have fantastical experiences in a space from another time – we recommend one of the limited day tickets for your live visit.

Selected evenings will also be broadcast via a live stream – with special surprises in between events.

The program schedule of the entire festival is available for download here:
Monologue Festival 2021 – Program

Thu 21 Oct
Festival Opening w/​ Sekt & Oranges
Thu, 21 Oct, 18.00
Live
LAST RESORT
Jos Porath & Marie S. Zwinzscher
Thu, 21 Oct, 18.30
DE
EN
Live
+ more
Wie die Zukunft ihre Menschen spielt
DIETMAR DATH
Thu, 21 Oct, 19.00
DE
Live
+ more
Protect & Survive
Zealtotale X GOB SQUAD
Thu, 21 Oct, 20.00
(Premiere)
EN
Live
+ more
Ein Tag im Universum
Nele Stuhler /​ Laura Eggert /​ Lisa Friederich
Thu, 21 Oct, 21.15
(Premiere)
DE
Live
+ more
RADIO INTERGALAKTIK live on air in the Orange Room
Thu, 21 Oct, 22.15
Live
+ more
Fri 22 Oct
HAZE ‒ Eine Bezeugung in Rauch
PARA
Fri, 22 Oct, 18.00
(Premiere)
DE
Live
+ more
LAST RESORT
Jos Porath & Marie S. Zwinzscher
Fri, 22 Oct, 19.30
DE
EN
Live
+ more
Protect & Survive
Zealtotale X GOB SQUAD
Thu, 21 Oct, 20.00
(Premiere)
EN
Live
Fri, 22 Oct, 20.00
EN
Live
+
Stream

This mixed-media performance, inspired by Audre Lorde explores who we are and why and how we could be. We are taken on a journey by a queen, or is she a goddess? A whore? A high priestess? She is all of these and more. She feels our spirits and reveals to us her manifold identities.

We will build a shelter to protect ourselves, but what are we protecting ourselves from? What are we afraid of? Where is the real danger? If we have learned from Audre Lorde that ‘The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house’ then what tools might we find to build our shelter? Some say, to survive we need to keep our friends close and our enemies closer. And sometimes to protect ourselves we present our alter-egos to the world, creating a force field around us, wearing invisible armor. What happens when we drop our shield?

Using ritual, poetry and personal narration, three emerging artists from the UK in collaboration with Gob Squad explore the political potential of the multitude of identities and the emotional promise of getting to know ourselves by introducing us to others: ‘I will be deliberate, afraid of nothing. Trust me… Believe in me… I won’t let you fall… Don’t let me fall.’ Maybe, what we need is not a fortified shelter, we need to uncover in order to recover.

Zealtotale X GOBSQUAD is a collaboration between emerging artists Zealtotale from Leicester UK and internationally renowned artist collective Gob Squad. Zealtotale use performance as a tool for empowerment and self expression. Often working in the digital realm, their work is forward facing, imagining futures through a black cultural lens. They are powerful and dangerous and making it up as they go along. Gob Squad has been developing methodologies of collective practice over the past three decades. X GOBSQUAD is an attempt to share this experience by focusing on mutually enriching, outwardly facing collaborations.

Live Performer in Berlin Jessica Butler Devised and Created by Jessica Butler / Chelsea-Lea Wilson / Joy Denise Quaye-Mensah (Zealtotale) In collaboration with Sarah Thom (Gob Squad) Sound Design Chelsea-Lea Wilson Video Editing Joy Denise Quaye-Mensah Co-Production Monologfestival 2021 – TD Berlin With support from Arts Council England / De Montfort University Leicester Special thanks for dramaturgical & production support Sharon Smith / Simon Will / Mat Hand / Ayla Suveren

www.gobsquad.com

A Beginners Guide to Worldbuilding
Lois Alexander & Christoph Winkler
Fri, 22 Oct, 21.15
(Premiere)
EN
Live
+
Stream
+ more
SPACE TRAVEL AGENCY in the Orange Room
Fri, 22 Oct, 22.15
Live
+ more
Sat 23 Oct
HAZE ‒ Eine Bezeugung in Rauch
PARA
Sat, 23 Oct, 18.00
DE
Live
+ more
LAST RESORT
Jos Porath & Marie S. Zwinzscher
Sat, 23 Oct, 19.30
DE
EN
Live
+ more
A Beginners Guide to Worldbuilding
Lois Alexander & Christoph Winkler
Sat, 23 Oct, 20.00
EN
Live
+
Stream
+ more
Ein Tag im Universum
Nele Stuhler /​ Laura Eggert /​ Lisa Friederich
Sat, 23 Oct, 21.15
DE
Live
+
Stream
+ more
DJ KAR in the Orange Room
Sat, 23 Oct, 22.15
Live
+ more
Sun 24 Oct
BET(A) BODIES : Meta-Womb
Keiken & Saint Precious
Sun, 24 Oct, 18.00
(Premiere)
EN
Live
+ more
HAZE ‒ Eine Bezeugung in Rauch
PARA
Sun, 24 Oct, 18.00
DE
Live
+ more
BET(A) BODIES : Meta-Womb
Keiken & Saint Precious
Sun, 24 Oct, 20.00
EN
Live
+ more
RADIO INTERGALAKTIK in the Orange Room
Sun, 24 Oct, 21.30
Live
+ more
Wed 27 Oct
LAST RESORT
Jos Porath & Marie S. Zwinzscher
Wed, 27 Oct, 19.30
DE
EN
Live
+ more
FUTURE LOVE
FRAUEN UND FIKTION
Wed, 27 Oct, 20.00
(Premiere)
DE
EN
Live
+ more
FASHION FICTION ‒ Ein Doppelmonolog
Gintersdorfer/​Klaßen
Wed, 27 Oct, 21.15
(Premiere)
DE
Live
+ more
RADIO INTERGALAKTIK in the Orange Room
Wed, 27 Oct, 22.15
Live
+ more
Thu 28 Oct
LAST RESORT
Jos Porath & Marie S. Zwinzscher
Thu, 28 Oct, 19.30
DE
EN
Live
+ more
FUTURE LOVE
FRAUEN UND FIKTION
Thu, 28 Oct, 20.00
DE
EN
Live
+
Stream
+ more
Splitter of broken realities in meinem Herzen
Bruno Brandes & Team
Thu, 28 Oct, 21.15
DE
Live
+
Stream
+ more
DJANE Justitia Prassnik in the Orange Room
Thu, 28 Oct, 22.15
Live
+ more
… followed by DJs in the Orange Room
Fri 29 Oct
LAST RESORT
Jos Porath & Marie S. Zwinzscher
Fri, 29 Oct, 19.30
DE
EN
Live
+ more
Splitter of broken realities in meinem Herzen
Bruno Brandes & Team
Fri, 29 Oct, 20.00
DE
Live
+
Stream
+ more
Ohne mich geht die Welt nicht unter ‒ Visionen für das Leben jenseits vom Abgrund
Böttger/​Luxinger/​Regel (PNAC)
Fri, 29 Oct, 21.15
(Premiere)
DE
EN
Live
+
Stream
+ more
Type 76 – Maschinenmonologe
Felix Kubin
Fri, 29 Oct, 22.15
DE
Live
+
Stream
+ more
DJANE Daisy d’Or in the Orange Room
Fri, 29 Oct, 23.00
Live
+ more
… followed by DJs in the Orange Room
Sat 30 Oct
LAST RESORT
Jos Porath & Marie S. Zwinzscher
Sat, 30 Oct, 18.30
DE
EN
Live
+ more
EAE ‒ Die Reise von Erlangen über Biarritz auf die Insel des Ersten Allgemeinen Erfahrungsraums
THERMOBOY FK
Sat, 30 Oct, 19.00
(Premiere)
DE
Live
+
Stream
+ more
FASHION FICTION ‒ Ein Doppelmonolog
Gintersdorfer/​Klaßen
Sat, 30 Oct, 20.00
DE
Live
+
Stream
+ more
PAS DE PUP MERCI
Schönheit und Schrecken (lass dir alles geschehen)
Cora Rudy van Dongen (der Cora Frost) & SMS-KAPUTT
Sat, 30 Oct, 21.15
DE
Live
+
Stream
+ more
DJ Grit in the Orange Room
Sat, 30 Oct, 22.15
Live
+ more
… followed by DJs in the Orange Room
Sun 31 Oct
LAST RESORT
Jos Porath & Marie S. Zwinzscher
Sun, 31 Oct, 18.30
DE
EN
Live
+ more
Ohne mich geht die Welt nicht unter ‒ Visionen für das Leben jenseits vom Abgrund
Böttger/​Luxinger/​Regel (PNAC)
Sun, 31 Oct, 19.00
DE
EN
Live
+ more
EAE ‒ Die Reise von Erlangen über Biarritz auf die Insel des Ersten Allgemeinen Erfahrungsraums
THERMOBOY FK
Sun, 31 Oct, 20.00
DE
Live
+ more
RADIO INTERGALAKTIK in the Orange Room
Sun, 31 Oct, 21.00
Live
+ more
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2021
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