Text, Direction: Sandra Calderan, Rébecca Chaillon / With: Sandra Calderan, Rébecca Chaillon / Light creation and stage management: Suzanne Péchenart / Dramaturgy, Collaboration in staging: Céline Champinot / Scenographic collaboration: Camille Riquier / Translation, Subtitling: Lisa Wegener / Production, Development: Mélanie Charreton / O.u.r.s.a M.I.n.o.r, Malaury Goutoule / Administration and touring: Élise Bernard, Amandine Loriol / Acknowledgements: Morgane Lory
Rébecca Chaillon & Sandra Calderan
La Gouineraie / Der Lesbengarten
- Performance
French /
with German and English surtitles /
Rébecca Chaillon and Sandra Calderan are a couple both on stage and in their private lives. In this exuberant and intimate performance, they explore what it means to ‘start a family’. Together, they invite the audience into the domestic world they have created for themselves.
Whilst Sandra desperately tries to build as many little houses as possible out of scrap wood, Rébecca arrives from the city to give country life a go. Surrounded by building materials, wallpaper and everyday objects, they ponder what role each of them might play in their new home and their new family.
The audience bears witness to their attempts to recreate a perfect family – amidst moments of celebration, loneliness, fantasy and failure … One after the other, they ask each other questions about the family they have inherited, the one they have invented, and the one they have chosen for themselves.
They do not offer ready-made solutions, but invite the audience to join in the search: how can families be formed when one is white, living with her ex, their children and her ex’s new family, whilst the other is Black, lives in the city and spends more time in the theatres of France and Navarre than in her own flat?
With mischievous humour, they revisit the Catholic iconography of the Holy Family. In a lavish, chaotic theatrical spectacle that mirrors their lives, they take delight in reassembling traditional, patriarchal, white, heterosexual ‘family models’. Just like in a television series spanning several seasons, their musings can take a different turn at any moment.
Team
Dates
Current
Price: 17–29 €, reduced 9–20 €
Combi tickets “Love is a Verb #2” (excluding the concert on 6.10.):
3 events for 30–50 €, reduced 20–40 €
6 events for 60–90 €, reduced 40–60 €
After the premiere on 16.10.: Break @WAU
After the performance in 18.10.: Artist Talk
Credits
Production: Compagnie Dans le ventre, Compagnie des Hauts Parleurs.
Co-production: CDN de Besançon Franche-Comté.
Support by: T2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers – CDN, Villa Valmont - Lormont Nouvelle Aquitaine.
The first version of this performance was presented in La Pop, in the frame of (Re)Mix festival.
The Compagnie Dans le ventre is supported by the French Ministry of Culture (DRAC Hauts-de-France).
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2.
