We ask: "When were you born? Before the flood? Or after the flood?"

The multi-sensory performance "Drifting until we are water" deals with floods. The starting point of the performance is the gap between scientific flood warnings and the human reaction to them: the flood only becomes real when chaos occurs. The flood becomes the main protagonist and shapes the evening. The audience experiences a flooded landscape in which nothing obeys, but everything flows.

We whisper: "The flood is coming. The flood is not coming. The flood is coming. The flood is not coming."

Greta Katharina Klein and her team investigate the temporality of the flood: What is the relationship between the eruptive force of the flood and the duration of its aftermath? Which stories survive the flood, which disappear?
They deal with its spatial dynamics: How is dissolution experienced?
They examine the social relationship to the flood: how can the tension between individual and collective responsibility with regard to disaster warnings be understood?

"Drifting until we are water" is an artistic reflection on the relationship between humans and nature in the context of ecological crises. The loss of orientation in the darkness is tested on stage; a sound composition of voices spreads out and flows into one another; and a flood puppet, which makes the flood physically tangible, is activated. Klein and her team invite the audience, as an indispensable part of the system, to experience the coexistence of various natural actors in the theater space.

In German spoken language with artistic audio description and tactile guidance, developed in co-authorship by one blind and two sighted people for a blind and visually impaired audience.

Start of the tactile tour in Frankfurt LAB: 6.30 pm
Start of the guided tour at TNT Marburg: 19:00
For the audio description with tactile tour: register by e-mail to dick.baerbel@t-online.de or by telephone at 01702141574, where you will also receive information on arrival and departure and any queries can be clarified.

Duration: one hour without a break.

Credits:

Director: Greta Katharina Klein; Performers: Anna-Maria Pahlke, Eva Streit, Nastya Dzyuban, Mikosch Loutsenko, Maren Küpper, Bella Enderlein, Leonie Hanna Kopineck, Lara-Marie Weine; Scenography: Eva Streit, Greta Katharina Klein; Design Westen: Leonie Hanna Kopineck; Comic elements: Anna-Maria Pahlke; Dramaturgical support: Jule Kriesel; Sound design: Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders, Josephine Pascale Rudolph; Music: sad sink society; Costume design: Caroline Bang; Lighting design: Frida Pfeiffer, Lisa Birkenbach, Leonie Hanna Kopineck, Eva Streit, Greta Katharina Klein; Artistic audio description with tactile guidance: Bärbel Dick-Fritzsche, Conny Walter, Greta Katharina Klein; graphic design: Paula Heinrich; press and public relations: Bernhard Siebert, Chiara Marcassa; video documentation: Merthe Wulf, Kathleen Schulken, Greta Katharina Klein; photos: Merthe Wulf; supervision: Xavier Le Roy, Ekaterina Trachsel; advice/support: Philipp Schulte, Christina Ulrich, Laura Salerno, Merthe Wulf, Simon Lenzen.

Supported by Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung, Friedrich Stiftung, Aktion Mensch e.V., Hessische Theaterakademie, Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Kulturamt der Stadt Gießen, kindly supported by Produktionshaus NAXOS; co-production: kunstrasen giessen e.V., POWERHOUSE Kulturbulenzen e.V. Thanks to the organizers: Frankfurt LAB, Theater neben dem Turm (Marburg)