Text, direction, costumes, and set design: Leila Hekmat / Musical Direction and Composition: Roman Ole, Roman Lemberg / Choreography: Shade Théret / Performance: Diamond Stingily, Jette Loona Hermanis, Roman Ole, Shade Théret, Mickey Mahar / Band: Alabapia, Enna Lesch, Leela Faude / Lighting: Anne Meeussen, Hendrik Borowski / Head costume tailoring: Elsa Leguévaques / Costume tailoring: Monika Martynow, YouJung Kim, Grace Kim / Collaboration tables and chairs: Niël Meyer / Hair and Make-up: Kenny Campbell / Sound: Xavier Perrone / Dramaturgy: Antonia Rohwetter / Dramaturgical consultation: Aenne Quiñones / Assistant directors: Richard Gersch, Noah Lichtblau / Technical direction and lighting: Hendrik Borowski / Production: Anja Weigl / Internship: Alicja Waliczek, Sara Kanarski / Translation surtitles: Gerd Sulzenbacher / Surtitles: Panthea
Leila Hekmat
Roses Rising – The Dinner
- Theatre
English /
with German and English surtitles /
approx. 90 mins.
Four guests, an opulent dinner and a longing for rebellion. What begins as a bourgeois ritual descends into intoxication, madness and revolutionary fantasy. Leila Hekmat stages a visually stunning performance that is part comedy, part musical tableau vivant.
“Pick your pussy up off that floor and make yourself a drink.”
Following the great success of “Gloriette”, her first work for a theatre space, Leila Hekmat is now staging her second production at HAU. In the performance “Roses Rising – The Dinner”, the Berlin-based artist and director shows a delirious dinner party in which four self-indulgent guests confront their exhausted hopes for collective action. What begins as a bourgeois ritual unravels into spiraling delusions, narcissistic agitation, self-doubt, and a sincere longing for rebellion.
With meticulously handcrafted costumes and stage designs, Roses Rising unfolds in Leila Hekmat’s distinctive style, traversing comedy, musical tableau vivant, and performance. Developed through extensive research and collected materials on 1970s protest cultures, the work emerges as a performative collage shaped through an ongoing process of collaboration with the choreographer and dancer Shade Théret and the performer and musician Roman Ole, who composes and directs the work’s original music alongside Roman Lemberg.
“Roses Rising” is presented as a two-part performance in collaboration with Gropius Bau and explores the conscious and unconscious strategies through which people respond to a world in crisis. “The Dinner” follows “The Movement”, which takes place in Gropius Bau’s atrium on March 6 & 7 and foreshadows the performative uprising sparked by the decadent dinner party.
Team
Dates
Current
Further Information
Visitor note
18.4., 14:00: Performative stage tour for girls, young women, and queer youth aged 12 and up
After the performance on 18.4.: Party at WAU with Hexarlequinette (Jette Loona Hermanis)
Price: 12–35 €, reduced 9–22 €
Credits
Production: Leila Hekmat. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Supported by: Gropius Bau, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi.
Location
HAU1
Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Access to the Parkett by means of a separate entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available.
