In the organizer's words:

"Come - into the green night", calls Natalie Diaz, "I am the alchemist of ink". It is often the darkness that brings new, vibrant perspectives. Darkness heals what light cannot fix. For the grand finale of Poetica, the authors return to the stage once again with members of the Schauspiel Köln ensemble. Together, they will bring together the highlights of the week and conjure up what is hidden: the untranslatable, the unknown that cannot be pinned down. Inspired by the writer Édouard Glissant and his idea of the "right to opacity", they celebrate their languages as resistant magic that is constantly being read anew. The result is a pleasurable, archipelagic way of thinking: fragile, open, interconnected. The world reveals itself in a poetic network of traces, resonances and movements - a poetics of being on the move that connects us and makes us sing along:

"The night sings, sings, sings, sings

She sings, sings, sings beneath the earth" - says the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita.

With the authors Asmaa Azaizeh, Alhierd Bacharevič, Natalie Diaz, Haytham El-Wardany, Angélica Freitas, Sarah Howe, Mette Moestrup, Daniela Seel and the curator Rike Scheff ler as well as the actors Jonas Dumke, Andreas Grötzinger, Hasti Molavian and Anke Zillich.

Director: Antonia Ortmanns; Stage: Isa Kasten; Costumes: Clara Bohnen; Music: Pablo Giw; Dramaturgy: Lidia Polito.

In cooperation with Schauspiel Köln.

Price information:

Tickets are available from Schauspiel Köln at www.schauspiel.koeln, tickets@buehnen.koeln or by calling +49 (0)221-221 28400.