KINDER, KÜCHE, KABELFERNSEHEN - female rage

In the organizer's words:

Children, kitchen, cable TV - female rage

After a successful premiere and second round, the show continues in March!

Audience reactions:

• impressive
• totally crazy
• Powerful, diverse and haunting
• is super
• worth watching twice

"Kinder, Küche, Kabelfernsehen - female rage" is a powerful theatrical work about life as a woman. It is a cry for freedom and justice, a call to understand intergenerational rage and transform it into strength. It is about human rights and the deep states of exhaustion that arise when women have to fight against the same systems again and again. The play takes up Penelope's resistance and brings it into our present to show that this struggle is never finished. It is a mirror of the female experience - in its vulnerability, its strength and its tireless striving for self-determination.

After the successful campaign against Troy, Odysseus gets lost on his return to Ithaca in a series of adventures that delay his return home for years. Meanwhile, Penelope, the queen of Ithaca, fears for her husband's fate for two decades. Forced into the role of the eternal waitress and faithful wife, she becomes a symbol of patience, sacrifice and devotion. But a conflict is brewing behind the walls of the royal palace: numerous suitors are pressuring her to take Odysseus' place and ascend the throne at her side. To escape the pressure, Penelope resorts to a ruse - she takes refuge at her loom and begins to weave a shroud. She promises to finish it before she chooses a new husband, but every night she unravels the threads. While the men demand power and possessions, Penelope weaves her thoughts, fears and dreams into the shroud - a silent rebellion against the narrow boundaries set by society.

Many centuries later, three women pick up this thread again. They try to unravel the thoughts and feelings that Penelope has hidden in her work, while the shroud slowly disintegrates and reveals its secrets. Urgent questions arise: What do ideals of beauty mean in a world that reduces women to their appearance? What burden does motherhood carry in a society that glorifies and trivializes it at the same time? How do politics, abuse of power and oppression shape female existence? The shawl not only reveals the image of the passive, waiting woman, but also the seeds of a deep resistance that is still active today - a resistance against a male-dominated world, against the tight social corset that has constricted women for centuries.

The actors are Hannah Maria Humpert, Elisa Mildner, Aitana Netzband
Director: Beatrice Scharmann | Costumes: Ensemble | Choreography: Zuza Salicka | Lighting: Torsten Eißrich | Layout: Elisa Mildner | Video: Hannah M. Humpert | Photos: Thomas Grünholz

Time & Place
Neue Bühne Friedrichshain, Boxhagener Str. 18, 10245 Berlin
Premiere Jan. 23, 2025 19:30
Performances March 6 / 7 / 8, 2025 each 19:30

Tickets & Reservation
Admission 10 - 20 €, sliding scale
030 6175773 | info@chekhoffplayers.de

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Price information:

Tickets & reservation Admission 10 - 20 € (bar), sliding scale 030 6175773 | info@chekhoffplayers.de