Here we go hitting the repeat button. What’s it like if you’re in your mid-twenties, single, a feminist and Afro-German in Berlin?
Polly and Laela are roommates and mostly best friends. They meet the morning after a night of partying and share stories of last night’s flirtatious encounters: of the development aiding “well digger”, of “Boris Becker”, of “Horst-Peter” who sings along all the rap lyrics and the chick in the loo who would just love to be Black for once and would put up with all the discrimination if she could. They get over their hangover, defy all the stereotypes and nonetheless they are in danger of failing to reach their ideals.
As spectators we become the protagonists’ friends, and in an intimate setting we learn about the personal lives of these two women who confidently and humorously talk about things that are actually quite terrible.
“Because, if you can’t laugh about all of these little racists (and those believing they aren’t racist because they’re sleeping with Black women) all you’re left with is despair. But the nights are too long and alcohol is too expensive for that.”
Jung, giftig und Schwarz (Young, Poisonous and Black) is a two-woman show taking a tongue-in-cheek look at the quite ordinary insanity of Black German everyday life; a play featuring wicked humour and a guide for all the Black women who have these same experiences every weekend.
The first collaboration of Thandi Sebe and Amina Eisner at Ballhaus Naunynstraße is an expression of a new generation of bold female theatre makers.

Produced by Kultursprünge at Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH, funded by the Bezirkskulturfonds Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.