BITTERFIELDS
An activist research revue
Performance Social/Urban Movements Theatre & Performance
While researching the reasons for the worldwide rise of right-wing forces, a magazine falls into the hands of les dramaturx alias Lynn Takeo Musiol and Christian Tschirner, in which right-wing authors present a realistic picture of the climate crisis and at the same time reveal how they are benefitting from it. Les dramaturx ask whether there is really a connection between the strengthening of the political right and climate change – and come to the bitter realisation that they themselves are far more deeply involved than they would like to be.
Bitter Fields ist eine aktivistische Recherche-Revue aus drei Viertel weißer Flecken, fünf Achtel dramatischer Gedankengänge und hundert Prozent Erkenntnisblitz. les dramaturx, das Performance-Kollektiv der Dramaturg*innen lynn t musiol und christian tschirner, beschäftigen sich in ihren kuratorischen wie performativen Praxen mit Ökologien, spekulativen Fiktionen und politischen Gegenwarten aus einer Ost-West-Perspektive. Die Performance Bitter Fields war ihre erste Bühnenarbeit, entstand in Kooperation mit dem OSTEN-Festival in Bitterfeld-Wolfen und gastiert seit der dortigen Uraufführung 2022 deutschlandweit.
cast
Idea, Concept, Text: les dramaturx (lynn t musiol, christian tschirner)
Design: Felix Remme
Audience Development: Tillmann Staemmler
les dramaturx consists of the theatre makers lynn t musiol (scorpio) and christian tschirner (sagittarius). in their work they deal with strategies of survival in the ruins of capitalism. most recently, they realised ‘cruising mythology – a symposium on practices of subversion and overgrowth’ at the schauspielhaus hamburg. les dramaturx are concerned with questions of world preservation as well as the prose of relationships. they borrowed their motto ‘together we are meaner’ from the 1986 magazine emanzenexpress.
credits
In co-operation with the OSTEN-Festival Bitterfeld-Wolfen.