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Friday, 10/2/2026
at 8:00 PM



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„We have watched for 4000 years, now we have seen it.” With this quote from the manifesto of the Italian feminist Carla Lonzi, the performance by Barletti/Waas opens an evening of thinking together, questioning, and exploring equal relationships.

In four conversations, the currently rediscovered thinker of philosophical feminism, not only in Italy, discusses with her ex-partner about art, love, equality, and power relations. It is about the role of women, the idealization of (male) genius, and the need for admiration. Lonzi's radical response to all of this was: “Go ahead!”

The evening brings revolutionary texts from the 1970s into dialogue with diary notes, letters, dreams, poems, and thoughts. A journey through more than five decades of feminism, philosophy, religion, family, and Marxism – towards a highly relevant process of becoming self-aware. Songs, music, conversations, and breaks structure the collective reflection. The audience is not expecting a finished narrative; they sit with the performers in the same space of thought, following in the footsteps of the radical thinker Carla Lonzi and all the women who wanted to counter the madness of patriarchal power.

After sold-out performances in Berlin and guest appearances in Hamburg, Mannheim, and Flensburg, the TD co-production is back in the schedule of the TD before the detour to Munich.

“Thinking is fun this way!” – hamburgtheater.de

IDEA / DIRECTING / PERFORMANCE Lea Barletti / Werner Waas MUSIC Mareike Hube / Harald Wissler Space Elke Graalfs SUPPORTED by an NFT network residency at TD Berlin, made possible by the Performing Arts Fund from resources of the Commissioner for Culture and Media CO-PRODUCTION TD Berlin

BARLETTI / WAAS are Lea Barletti and Werner Waas. Their artistic collaboration began in the 1990s in Rome, leading through Munich and Lecce to Berlin. Over more than two decades, they have realized a multitude of theatrical works, founded a playwrights' forum, developed the multi-year experimental festival K-Now, and helped build and lead the theater department of the southern Italian cultural center Manifatture Knos. They have translated numerous plays, initiated international collaborations, and worked with artists from across Europe and beyond. Since 2012, they have particularly made a name for themselves with their works on Peter Handke. Since 2016, they have regularly produced at TD Berlin.

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