Amid the fog of fallen pipes and broken monuments, enigmatic figures: the King, the Narrator, the Fairy of the Radical Sort, the Tourists, the Wounded, the Horse, the Architect. Together they detail a space of opacity, erotics and fragile connections. Drawing from Jack Halberstam’s theory of ‘unworlding’ the work seeks to address the aesthetics of collapse and its potential to loosen the body from systems of gender and progress. This is not a site to disregard but an abundance of situations to be reckoned with.

The dramaturgy of the performance is driven by an uncanny numerological significance of the number 5: interweaving the connection between the 5 stages of grief, the 5 stages of decomposition and finally the 5 acts of a classical play.

‘Collapse in 5 Acts: there is porn of it’, confronts architectural and structural ruination against a backdrop of the capitalist drive for renewal. It actively invites the public to consider the wreckage of all that we have built and inherited as available remnants for a romance with the future, archive of the past and a sobering recognition for where we are now.

Information on accessibility and language

• Step-less access

• Descriptive surtitles in standard written German

• Further information on accessibility will be provided continuously until the premiere