The logo of the post-migrant theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße: a drawing of a dog’s head in profile, showing its teeth with its tongue hanging out. Next to the dog’s open mouth is a red star.

Ballhaus Naunynstraße

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Theater

Perikizi

by Emine Sevgi Özdamar

Perikızı, a young girl from Istanbul, drops out of school and sets off for Germany in order to become an actress, despite the admonitions of her parents and her grandmother. Her dream is to conquer the great stages of Europe in the role of the fairy queen Titania from Midsummernight’s Dream. Arriving in the wonderful world of Germany with a one-year work contract, Perikizi starts her career as a cleaner. With a naively untroubled perspective, she drifts through a world that seems like a surreal suspension of time and space. The dreams and nightmares of millions of people come together in Perikızı’s story in which she chases her dream in a cheeky and sometimes melancholy way. Based on Özdamar’s autobiographical novel Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn, Israeli director Michael Ronen presents the play as one grand dream in which Oriental storytelling traditions are interwoven with the fairytale worlds of the West. The art of storytelling has no borders; its power lies in the primeval force of its words, a force that defies definition. And at the end, when Periziki is again confronted with the warnings of her family, the circle closes and just one thing is sure: Titania has become a woman of the world!