Das Treffen der Königinnen
Édith Nana
Thrown into a game situation, two performers compete against each other in an unusual duel: the Cameroonian director Édith Nana and the German performer Kerstin Pohle embody powerful, historical queens - one African, the other Western - but the “Meeting of the Queens” turns out to be much more than a simple game of trumps. With each round, it becomes clear that this is not just about the search for cultural role models, but that the hidden rules of the system are also under scrutiny: patriarchal structures, capitalist concepts and questions about socially prescribed roles and cultural appropriation.
With a mixture of theater, game, music and video art, we encounter courageous and inspiring female figures on stage and in the story that the two artists bring to life. But the game becomes increasingly entangled in its own set of rules. Which role models shape our identity? Whose stories are being told? Who writes the rules? And whose game is it really? After “The Last Queen” and “The Last Queen 2”, this play is the third and final part of Nana's Queen trilogy. Accompanied by Cameroonian mvet player François ALIMA and German video artist Nils Voges (sputnic), we embark on a multimedia and philosophical journey that questions traditions, role models and concepts of identity.
