Oratorio – A collective meditation on a well-kept secret

She She Pop

Oratorium

“Let it belong to those it is good for.” (B. Brecht)Property changes consciousness. It divides friends, gives one person power over others and excludes. Property is taken for granted. And people don’t talk about it. Nothing is so constitutive of our society, or our lives together; nothing has such a divisive effect on our community as property. With “Oratorium”, She She Pop wants to air the secret of property, to drag it out onto a stage.It is said that Western theatre began with the protagonist Thespis, who stepped out from the choir 2,500 years ago. But you could also say: it was the moment that the stage was privatised. Since then, the individual has been consistently overrated, overburdened and emotionally exploited. “Oratorium” would like to shed some light on the context of the bourgeois public, property and democratic empowerment.Together with each choir of local delegates and their audience, She She Pop will start a discussion on property and examine their own relationship to ownership, the distribution of goods and its related problems. Inspired by Brecht’s Lehrstücktheorie, they develop rules for a dialogical theatre show and form discordant speaking choruses, which renegotiate with each performance how we deal with property. Who is allowed to speak? Who is present, who is represented? A collective monologue emerges from the diversity of voices, discord, and occasional, momentary harmony.“Oratorium” is a work-in-progress, which will premiere in 2018 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. First showings took place at Theaterformen 2017 in Hanover and subsequently also at the Konfrontacje Teatralne Festival in Lublin and the ACT Independent Theatre Festival Sofia. Now ORATORIO returns from its tour through Europe, during which it gathered momentary impressions of other economic microcosms and evolved intoa great polyphonic meditation at each stop along the way. In 2019, She She Pop have been invited to the Theatertreffen in Berlin with their “Oratorium”. The statement from the jury reads: “One doesn’t talk about money. The performance collective She She Pop doesn’t bother with that rule, making private property, inequality and shame the topic of their piece. … She She Pop turns the audience into a choir with multiple voices. As always with She She Pop the political lies in the private, in biographical material.”

approx. 100 mins.

Artists/Collaborators: She She Pop (Von und mit), Sebastian Bark (Von und mit), Johanna Freiburg (Von und mit), Fanni Halmburger (Von und mit), Lisa Lucassen (Von und mit), Mieke Matzke (Von und mit), Ilia Papatheodorou (Von und mit), Berit Stumpf sowie dem Chor der lokalen Delegierten. (Von und mit), Sandra Fox (Bühne), Lea Søvsø (Kostüme), Max Knoth (Musik), Laia Ribera (Künstlerische Mitarbeit Tour), Alisa Tretau (Künstlerische Mitarbeit Tour), Peggy Maedler (Dramaturgische Mitarbeit), Annett Gröschner (Dramaturgische Mitarbeit), Sven Nichterlein (Technische Leitung & Lichtdesign), Aminata Oelßner (Produktionsleitung), Anne Brammen (Produktionsleitung), Elke Weber (Produktionsleitung), Tina Ebert (Produktionsleitung), ehrliche arbeit - freies Kulturbüro (Kommunikation), Tina Ebert (Tour-Organisation), Aminata Oelßner (Administration), Elke Weber (Company Management), Ruschka Steininger (Künstlerische Mitarbeit Produktion), PANTHEA / Ellen Gallagher (Englische Live-Übersetzung), Saioa Alvarez Ruiz (Chor der Delegierten in Berlin), Majd Assassa (Chor der Delegierten in Berlin), Jean Chaize (Chor der Delegierten in Berlin), Antonio Cerezo (Chor der Delegierten in Berlin), Brigitte Cuvelier (Chor der Delegierten in Berlin), Peggy Mädler (Chor der Delegierten in Berlin), Susanne M. Scholl (Chor der Delegierten in Berlin), Wenke Seemann (Chor der Delegierten in Berlin), Janek Sobolewski (Chor der Delegierten in Berlin), Richard Koch (Trompete), Olli Bott (Vibraphon), Karl Ivar Revseth (Vibraphon), Maria Schneider (Vibraphon), Marc Gosemärker (Vibraphon), Andreas Kröher (Licht)

There are interactions with the audience that take place after consent.

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• Date Saturday, 20/June/2026 19:00 (1 more date)
• Venue HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU1
• Address Stresemannstraße 29 A, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg
• Price from €12.00

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