UNSERE GRUBE

Based on the picture book by Emma AdBåge (awarded the 2022 Youth Literature Prize). Performance for children aged 5 and over

"Our pit" is the most beautiful place to play. With all the weeds, tree stumps and stones, anything is possible! Only the adults see it differently: too dangerous! Why do adults always interfere? Why are their play ideas always so boring? What are the adults afraid of and where are their worries justified? Together with young people, pulk fiktion brings the picture book Our Pit by Emma AdBåge to the stage. The play becomes a social space for negotiation: between rules and freedom, fear and the spirit of adventure.

The JUNGEpulk

"Our Pit", based on the picture book of the same name by Emma AdBåge, is the first production in which pulk fiktion has worked with a young team of experts. Since May 2024, JUNGEpulk has been meeting regularly with the artists involved in the production and exploring their own artistic visions for the play. Since October, the JUNGEpulk has been attending weekly rehearsals and providing work assignments and feedback in the areas of direction, dramaturgy, set design, music and performance. The aim is for pulk fiktion to go beyond research visits within a production, to question its own artistic practice in a sustainable and in-depth way and to change it through the collaboration of young people. JUNGEpulk is intended to become a long-term part of pulk fiktion's working practice and is constantly evolving.

Rights: First publication by Rabén & Sjögren, Stockholm, Sweden 2018 and in German (translation: Friederike Buchinger) by Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim, 2021.

A co-production of pulk fiktion with the Freies Werkstatt Theater Köln and the FFT Düsseldorf.
Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media