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Hyunsin Kim liegt blass geschminkt in einem cartoon-haft gestalteten Bett auf der Bühne
Mayra Wallraff

Baby, I‘m
Sick Tonight

Dance / Performance
by Olivia Hyunsin Kim / ddanddarakim

Relaxed Performance
German Sign Language
Audio Description
Surtitles
15.11.
Sa
20:00
16.11.
Su
18:00
Relaxed performance with audio description, German Sign Language interpretation and surtitles

Solidary price system:
8 / 12 / 18 € ( free choice)
Bremen Pass: 3 €
Children and young people 5-17 years: 5 €

Cultural semester ticket: free of charge

Pre-sale online only. Remaining tickets from 1 hour before the start of the event at the box office 0421 520 80 70.

Alternatively, you can reserve tickets by phone or email:
0421 520 80 70 (Mon, Wed-Fri 10:00 to 14:00, also AB) or ticket@schwankhalle.de

Please note: Our ticket hotline is not open at weekends and in the evenings. Please reserve your tickets well in advance.
Reserved tickets must be collected from the box office no later than 30 minutes before the start of the event - after this time the reservation expires.
The box office can be reached by phone from 1 hour before the start of the event at 0421 520 80 70.

Both performances are Relaxed Performances.

This means that you can leave and re-enter the auditorium at any time.

There is a separate area where you can take a break if you need to.

The auditorium will not be completely dark at any point during the performance.

You are allowed to make noise and react to what you are experiencing during the performance.

Language
The performance is in spoken German and English with DGS (German Sign Language) interpretation.
There are surtitles in written German and English.
An audio description in spoken German is available via headphones.

Duration
The performance lasts approximately 90 minutes. There is no official intermission, but you may leave and re-enter at any time.

Lighting
The audience will be illuminated by colored lights at certain points during the performance. At one point, there will be a flashing red alarm.
There will be no flash lights, strobe effects, or spotlights directed at the audience.
There are some very dark scenes, but the lights in the audience area remain dimmed throughout.

Sound
Some low-frequency sounds are played (not below 40hz).
A choir will sing live on stage.

Atmosphere
The audience will be spontaneously addressed directly during the comedy scenes.
There is no obligation to respond to the address.

Other effects
Foam with a soap-like smell is used.

Premises
All public areas of the Schwankhalle are at ground level and accessible without steps.

There are three different toilets: an accessible toilet that is also suitable for wheelchair users, a toilet with three cubicles and a toilet with urinals and a toilet cubicle.

The audience area is generally seated.
The wheelchair spaces are located in the front row and can be reserved in advance by telephone 0421 520 80 70, by email ticket@schwankhalle.de or by making an entry in the ticketshop.

Individual requirements such as specific seats, early boarding or an additional ticket for an accompanying person can also be specified when purchasing or reserving tickets.

Further information on the accessibility of our premises can be found here: Accessibility. If you have any questions, please contact us at ticket@schwankhalle.de or 0421 520 80 70.

The play deals with chronic illness, death, miscarriage, violence, experiences of discrimination and experiences of violence in medical contexts (especially in contemporary gynecology, but also historical experiments on sick people, including those diagnosed with “hysteria” in the 19th century, some of which are documented in photographs; as well as forced sterilizations in the context of “Aktion T4” under Naziism).

There are images of needles and illustrations of surgical procedures.

From the perspective of a queer woman of color with chronic illness, Olivia Hyunsin Kim experiments with the format of stand-up comedy. In collaboration with other chronically ill artists, she is looking for forms of self-empowering humor.

Current discourses critical of capitalism often depict people with chronic illnesses in a romanticized or simplified way. They are read as resistant bodies that counteract capitalism – for example through different temporalities or failure of expected productivity – while aspects such as constant pain or the necessity of crip time, for example, are ignored.

Together with her team, Olivia Hyunsin Kim uses dance and narrative to counter stigmatization and prejudice against artists with invisible disabilities or people who are falsely read as healthy. The artists use the means of stand-up, pop and performance in a radically unruly and humorous way to connect the cultural history of hysteria, today‘s treatment of sick female queer people and the body images of the contemporary dance scene, among other things.

Hyunsin Kim sings, two background performers sign in DGS
Mayra Wallraff
Hyunsin Kim squats on stage and sings into a microphone.
Mayra Wallraff
A person in a monster-like fur costume with outstretched arms
Mayra Wallraff
Hyunsin Kim, dignified in an elaborate costume, bathed in a bright cone of light
Mayra Wallraff
Hyunsin Kim sings with a pained expression on her face.
Mayra Wallraff

Credits

Choreography, performance: Olivia Hyunsin Kim
Costumes, stage design: Kristin Gerwien
Sound environment: Martyna Poznańska
Video, lighting: Jones Seitz
Technical direction: Gefährliche Arbeit
Dramaturgy: Marielle Schavan
Access consulting: Hyemi Jolee
Production management: Christo Schleiff
Set and production assistant: Luca Plaumann
Light foam object: Susana Alonso and Jones Seitz
Graphic design: Christian Cattelan
Hysterical choir: N.N., Jill B. Suffner
DGS interpretation in tandem: Eyk Kauly and Aniella Tiedje
Surtitles: Elena Polzer & Luca Plaumann

Thanks to: Yvonne Sembene, Hyemi Jolee, ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro, Elisabeth Enke, Isabel Gatzke, Naomi Boyce, Tanzhalle Wiesenburg, and the RED Residenz­program at Tanzfabrik Berlin.

A production by Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim in co-production with Sophiensæle. Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund. Guest performance made possible by NPN guest performance funding for theater from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the state ministries of culture and the arts. Audio description, DGS interpretation, and subtitling funded by Aktion Mensch.