Bullshit
She She Pop
“”Bullshit” develops as a clever, very contemporary experimental arrangement, (…) asks the right questions, exposes its own helplessness and finds comedic and poetic images to go with.” – Hamburger Abendblatt, 10.Februar 2025
“They (…) were treated to a performance in which no one is too embarrassed to put the literally naked facts, even those of a no longer young female body, at the service of doubt, of questioning what one knows or thinks one knows and what is now crumbling and crumbling. (…) It’s been a long time since we’ve seen anything as intense as “Bullshit” from the icons of the German-language performance scene.” – FAZ, Eva-Maria Magel, 24 November 2024
That’s bullshit: a slang term for something that is false, discredited, nonsense. Or something that is invented, fake, misleading, a deception.
On an empty stage, the performers find themselves in the endless loop of a sales show. There is nothing here – and yet everything is on offer. The spiral around She She Pop as sellers of reality goes on and on, their search for something to which they can still attach a value, only to sell it off. Can they still grasp reality with their senses, describe it with words? Can it still be saved? Can anything withstand the sell-out? She She Pop have lost their bearings. The central perspective – from which they have learnt to focus on any goal – has dissolved.
In ‘Bullshit’, She She Pop bravely confront the loss of a common reality. The performers acknowledge that they know nothing and that even the poetic reality of the theatre space has been compromised. So they try to leave the bubble of their perception to assume other proportions, to see other colours, to communicate with echolocation like the bat, and to find themselves in absolute darkness. They imagine other ways of seeing, they commit themselves to uncertainty and dedicate themselves to unlearning. Will they still succeed in shaping an experience out of chaos, finding meaning in randomness, creating meaning in the confusion of possibilities – or, as a last resort, declaring bankruptcy a comedy?
Duration: ca. 1 h 40 min
Language: German
15.03. audience discussion following the performance
Book raffle: ‘She She Pop - More than seven sisters’!
In co-operation with Alexander Verlag Berlin, HELLERAU is giving away 3 x 1 copy of the book „She She Pop – Mehr als sieben Schwestern“!
Have you bought one or more tickets online via our ticket portal Reservix for ‘Bullshit’ by She She Pop on 14 or 15 March? Then you have the chance to win one of three books!
This is how it works:
- The raffle runs until Saturday, 15 March 2025, 19:59.
- All ticket buyers will be drawn at random on Monday, 17 March 2025.
- The winners will be notified by email.
Conditions for participation:
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- Everyone who have purchased one or more tickets for the event ‘Bullshit’ by She She Pop on 14 or 15 March 2025 at HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts via the ticket portal Reservix are eligible to participate.
- Participation is automatic with the ticket purchase. Separate registration is not required.
- The prize draw ends on 15 March 2025 at 19:59. Later ticket purchases will not be considered.
- The winners will be drawn at random on 17 March 2025 and then notified by email to the email address provided when purchasing the ticket.
- The prize is non-transferable and cannot be paid out in cash.
- If the winner does not respond after two requests within a period of two weeks, the prize can be transferred to another participant.
- The prize draw is organised by HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, in cooperation with Alexander Verlag Berlin.
- Legal recourse is excluded.
Stroboscopic light effects will be used during the event. This can lead to physical discomfort in sensitive people.
She She Pop is a Berlin-based feminist performance collective that deals with current issues with reference to their own biographies and always creates a very lively stage atmosphere by involving the audience. The group is one of the most prominent and influential in the German theater scene, has received many awards and successfully tours its plays internationally.
Concept & idea: She She Pop
By & with: Sebastian Bark, Johanna Freiburg, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Ilia Papatheodorou, Berit Stumpf
Artistic collaboration: Rodrigo Zorzanelli
Director of Photography & Video Installation: Benjamin Krieg
Technical advice on video design: L Wilson-Spiro
Collaboration Video: Guillaume Cailleau
Stage Set: Philine Rinnert
Costume: Lea Søvsø
Costume collaboration: Margarita Rozhkova
Collaboration on costume design: Emma Cattell, Simon Kernen
Music, sound design, sound installation, live sound mix: Santiago Blaum
Sound, sound design collaboration: Manuel Louis Horstmann
Lighting design: Michael Lentner
Technical direction: Claes Schwennen
Dramaturgical advice: Lidiia Golovanova
Hospitation: Neïtah Janzing
Communication: Tina Ebert
Production: Tina Ebert, Aminata Oelßner, Elke Weber
Company Management: Aminata Oelßner, Elke Weber
A production of She She Pop in co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, FFT Düsseldorf, Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts. With support: Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte. Special thanks: Fellowship program “Weltoffenes Berlin” 2024.
