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Saturday, 10/10/2026
at 8:00 PM



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Between the renovation of her motel room, dreams of cotton candy, and encounters with older women, Miranda July's protagonist blows apart patriarchal concepts of femininity and desire. In intimate diary form and with delicate humor, the novel delves deeply into the power and creativity of female self-empowerment.

July's acclaimed novel tells the story of a 45-year-old artist who sets out not to survive the upheaval of menopause but to thrive in it – with everything that comes with it: desire, doubt, pain, and liberation. Instead of a classic coming-of-age story, we experience a coming-of-change: a late awakening that is radically present and future-oriented.

The feminist artist collective storytelling engines brings July's radical prose to the stage as a dynamic scenic reading. With wit and resistance, three performers tell the story of a woman who stops functioning – and thereby begins to live.

What if the end is the beginning? If the second half of life is completely different from what we think?

VERSION / CONCEPT / PERFORMANCE Lucy Wirth / Tjadke Biallowons / Isabella Bartdorff
SET DESIGN Christina Berger OUTSIDE EYE Tom Schneider

STORYTELLING ENGINES is an artist collective based in Freiburg and Munich, connected by an interest in a cooperative working style and an expanded concept of theater that makes the division into genres permeable and processes various materials and themes into politically relevant theater evenings with a feminist focus. With the comic adaptation of ICH FÜHL’S NICHT after Liv Strömquist, the collective made its debut in Berlin and received enthusiastic acclaim at the TD multiple times.

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