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Hendrik Quast: Spill Your Guts: Waiting Room Visions
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- Date Friday, 30/October/2026 21:00 ( 3 more dates )
- Venue Sophiensaele - Kantine
- Address Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin-Mitte
- Price from €25.00
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Hendrik Quast: Spill Your Guts: Waiting Room Visions
– Person mit offenem Mund in rotem Rollkragen und schwarzem Jackett neben rotem Totenkopf. Hintergrund in Rot- und Orangetönen mit abstrakten Formen.
© Florian Krauss, David Coyle
– Person in rotem Pullover sitzt, haelt eine Maske und eine Zeitschrift. Links ein Stativ mit gruener Vorrichtung vor dunklem Hintergrund.
© Larissa Pinkham
– Person liegt auf der Bühne. Handpuppe mit Fratze auf einer Halterung. Die Szene wirkt dunkel mit grün-blauer Beleuchtung.
© Larissa Pinkham
– Person in rotem Oberteil sitzt auf Bühne, hält einen Totenschädel. Publikum im Vordergrund, schwarzer Bühnenhintergrund, Scheinwerfer darüber.
© Larissa Pinkham
– Eine Person in rotem Oberteil und weissen Shorts sitzt auf einem Podest, haelt eine Maske und ein blaues Objekt in der Hand. Publikum im Vordergrund.
© Larissa Pinkham
His gut has a voice, and it’s relentless. Its only thought: make him bleed!
Spill Your Guts is a darkly comic ventriloquist show about a gut gone rogue. Half healthy, half sick, Hendrik Quast performs alongside a sharp-tongued dummy embodying his illness: a chronic, invisible, inflammatory force, a dysfunctional double act turning against him. Blending theater, comedy and musical, Quast argues with his puppet about shame and what spills out—tales of undigested leftovers, the medical system, outrageous stories of illness and hidden disability.
For this project, performance and action artist Hendrik Quast has learnt the art of ventriloquism in order to understand his own relationship with his intestine. Quast’s everyday experiences with chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) open up new ways of speaking and unusual spaces of gallows and fecal humor for the sick and healthy audience. With the means of entertainment art, the artist and his team ask the question: Who actually holds the interpretive control over the sick body—medicine, the patient, or the disease itself?
Following the premiere of Spill Your Guts at Sophiensæle in 2022, an invitation to the radikal jung festival in 2024 and the radio play adaptation for WDR, Hendrik Quast and his puppet are bringing Spill Your Guts: Waiting Room Visions—a new English-language production—to the stage, which will premiere in August as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The production offers a disability arts perspective on hidden disabilities, uniquely blending crip comedy, personification and theater.
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Performance, text, concept, scenography: Hendrik QuastPuppet, costume, make-up: Christina NeussSet design: Jonas DrosteWaiting room artwork: Manuel KirschLighting design: Hendrik BorowskiSound: Toben PielArtistic collaboration: Florian FischerGraphic design: David CoyleProduction management: Lisa Gehring, Maret Zeino-MahmalatTechnical direction: Tobias Klette
A production based on the performance Spill Your Guts (2022) by Hendrik Quast in co-production with Sophiensæle, Kampnagel Hamburg and Künstler*innenhaus Mousonuturm. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). Supported by the residency programme Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Schloss Bröllin and Cimma Cità. The revival is funded by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
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