Christopher
Ramm
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BEYOND PRICE

In May 2018, my grandmother passed away at the age of 90. She died in the same house she was born. In the same house where my mother and her sister grew up, where I played and ate cake as a child. I never asked my grandmother: what did it mean to you to raise children? What did you live for? Why didn't you ever go on strike? Why didn't you quit your unpaid job as a housewife? Did you live your dream?

BEYOND PRICE is not a play about, but together with "elderly" women. Together with Liesl (81) and Marie (71), who were both on stage for the first time, we looked at our respective (work) biographies. Based on interviews I did with both women, BEYOND PRICE negotiates questions of gender and class, society and generations. What does it mean to perform a life, with an audience or without?

PREMIERE: 28-30.6.2019 / Kampnagel, Hamburg
FURTHER PERFORMANCE:
- 8.2.2020/ Lichthof Theater, Hamburg
- 2.4.2020/ Hauptsache (Online) Frei Festival

CREDITS:

Concept/ Director: Christopher Ramm
Performance: Liesl Lappat, Marie Gieskes, Christopher Ramm
Stage: Carolina Burandt
Choreography: Swaantje Gieskes
Light Design: Sönke C. Herms
Outside-Eye: Jochen Roller, Antje Pfundtner, Noah Holtwiesche, Su Jin Kim

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