Wed

6.11.

20:00
Yasmine Yahiatène

Fri

15.11.

21:00
melanie bonajo, Daniel Cremer, Yanna Rüger & Theater HORA

Sat

16.11.

17:00
Anna Berndtson and Yingmei Duan

Sat

16.11.

18:00 + Artist Talk
melanie bonajo, Daniel Cremer, Yanna Rüger & Theater HORA

Sun

17.11.

16:00
melanie bonajo, Daniel Cremer, Yanna Rüger & Theater HORA

Tue

19.11.

21:00
Laura Murphy & Ursula Martinez

Wed

20.11.

20:00
Laura Murphy & Ursula Martinez

Fri

22.11.

20:30
Anna Berndtson and Yingmei Duan

Thu

28.11.

20:00 premiere
Hysterisches Globusgefühl

Fri

29.11.

20:00
Hysterisches Globusgefühl

Sat

30.11.

20:00
Hysterisches Globusgefühl

Sun

1.12.

18:00
Hysterisches Globusgefühl

Thu

5.12.

20:00 premiere
Oliver Zahn

Fri

6.12.

20:00
Oliver Zahn

Sat

7.12.

20:00
Oliver Zahn

Sun

8.12.

18:00
Oliver Zahn

Fri

20.12.

20:00 Premiere
Musiktheaterkollektiv Hauen und Stechen

Sat

21.12.

20:00
Musiktheaterkollektiv Hauen und Stechen

Sun

22.12.

18:00
Musiktheaterkollektiv Hauen und Stechen

Productions

  • © Óscar González

  • © Óscar González

  • © Óscar González

Palace of Ash and Rain

ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS

Don’t you know
They’re talking about a revolution?

There! You can see it through the trees. A tower, a wall, a path through the leaves. A place out of time. 

Everyone is welcome at the Palace — but you have to leave everything behind: memories, your old life, even your name. For your new name, you can choose a colour: Rose, Turquoise, Fuchsia, Sage. There are rooms for sleeping, workshops, an infirmary and gardens. There’s karaoke sung in a brand new language. A lonely dance we dance once a year.

In this new live performance, Queer performance collective ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS attempt to imagine a Queer Utopia: post capitalist, post trauma, post addiction, post sadness, post joy — an After to the mess that came Before. 

Don’t you know you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run …

»Palace of Ash and Rain« is the fifth chapter of »With Forests in Our Mouths«, a durational constellation artwork made up of multiple interconnected chapters shared across 2024 and 2025 and including performances, films, exhibitions and publications.

 


Queer performance collective ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS make multidisciplinary performance works, often using the Queer constructed language Damiá as an artistic tool. In 2023, they left Berlin for a new home at the edge of the forest in North Karelia, Finland.

 

ACCESSIBILITY

»Palace of Ash and Rain« aims to create a more accessible performance space for both audience and performers. Audience lighting levels will remain at a level where it is possible to move around and to leave the space if necessary. Alternative seating options will be available. The doors to the performance space will open at 19:30 and audiences are welcome to come and join us there to relax and get comfortable, listen to music, or ask questions until the performance begins at 20:00.

 

Doors open at 19:30

 

The performance on 16.10. will be followed by an artist talk with Once We Were Islands and Theaterscoutings Berlin.

Premiere

  • Oct 16, 2024
Past Dates
  • Oct 16, 2024
  • Oct 17, 2024

Tickets

15 | 10 Euros
Tickets can be purchased by phone, mail or online.
For online tickets, 13% presale fee and 2,- Euro service fee are charged in addition to the basic ticket price by the provider Reservix.

Duration

60 minutes

Language

English, Damiá

Text, direction, performance

ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS

Light

Elliott Cennetoglu

Sound

Jean P’ark

Image

Óscar González

»With Forests in Our Mouths« is a multi-chapter constellation artwork supported in 2024/25 by the Kone Foundation, and part of the Metsän puolella community of arts and research projects. »Palace of Ash and Rain«, the fifth chapter of the work, is a ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS production in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost and Theater neben dem Turm.