Into the Chronosphere

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  Into the Chronosphere – Drei Personen sitzen auf dem Boden, mittlere Person mit brauner Bluse, die anderen beiden tragen helle Kleidung. Alle tragen Ringe und Socken.

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  Into the Chronosphere – Drei Personen posieren. Eine steht in pinker Bluse, zwei knien in weißen und braunen Hemden auf weißem Hintergrund. Sie tragen keine Schuhe.

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  Into the Chronosphere – Drei Personen. Eine steht in pinker Bluse, zwei knien in weißen und braunen Hemden. Alle haben zurueckgelassenes Haar und tragen Schmuck. Weiße Hintergrund.

In German and English with German and English surtitles

The new theatre production by Sisi Bo’wale opens with an exhibition opening — the opening of Into the Chronosphere. The curator and host are slick, tossing around intellectualisms to impress the audience. The unveiling of the central exhibit — the highlight of the show — is imminent. But then something shifts in space and time. The ground, at times firm, at times sandy, expands and contracts. Led by tortoises, the ticking of clocks and the sound of their own voices, through imperial archives, anthills and quantum computers, the three protagonists set out in search of the origin of their own time.

In Into the Chronosphere, Sisi Bo’wale and his team weave performance, music, poetry and psychedelic imagery into a tongue-in-cheek, queer, Afrofuturist collage. At its heart is the meaning of time and the protagonists’ attempt to free it from its colonial, extractive linearity.

Into the Chronosphere is the logical continuation of Sisi Bo’wale’s own artistic endeavour: through poetry, collages, zines and films, he has spent several years deconstructing dominant notions of time and — drawing on Surrealist and Afrofuturist art forms — creating his own artistic worlds of time. And yet Into the Chronosphere is also a debut — Sisi Bo’wale’s directorial debut at Ballhaus Naunynstraße. The actor, filmmaker, visual artist and writer previously created his full-length solo performance Moonflavoured Mountains (2025) and served as facilitator for the production Weaving Dreams (2026) as part of the akademie der autodidakten.

Artists/Collaborators: Ghostpoet - (Sound), Sisi Bo'wale (Text und Regie), Arel Dewi (Video), Shun Perrotta (Licht), Leidy Ramirez-Peña (Regiemitarbeit), Mele Sabú (Kostüm), Mohammad Serhan (Produktionsleitung), Omar Sherif (Bühne), Laura Tutondele Mahaniah (Dramaturgie), Nuria de Lario (Maske), Dena Abay, Naomi Abukha, Kelvin Kilonzo

A production by Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 21/November/2026 20:00 ( 4 more dates )
• Venue Ballhaus Naunynstraße
• Address Naunynstraße 27, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg