All Gender is the first dramaqueer International Theatre Residency for non-conforming gender authors that took place between the 4th and 11th of November 2024. The rehearsals and the reading performances took place in OTTO am Haus der Statistik, one of the temporary buildings part of Haus der Statistik, where dramaqueer will open its doors in 2026. The International Residency is one of the yearly permanent programs of dramaqueer. The first beneficiaries were four Romanian non-binary artists. They each created a scenario for performance in a workshop coordinated by Bogdan Georgescu. The scenarios were presented both in Bucharest and Berlin, by local non-conforming gender performers.
“Just for today” is an Active Art writing for stage workshop for non-conforming gender people in Friedrichshain, Berlin, who have experience in overcoming addiction. The core theme is the exploration of personal experiences in their struggle against discrimination and isolation through creative collective processes. Observation and self-observation, autorepresentation and reflection as well as autofiction are used.
TRIGGER WARNING! We perform directly, openly, and transparently about “the drug that if you quit, everyone thinks you have a problem”. TRIGGER WARNING!
John drinks. John likes to drink. More than some, certainly less than others, but they have a feeling that things may have gotten out of hand, or at least that’s what other people have told them, and John is having second thoughts. The fall lasts, and John splits hairs for as long as they can, 75 minutes, to figure out if they can get on with their plan. Or do they have a problem? John hits a wall. A flood. A ceiling. John thinks. John is an alcoholic. What does John do?
dramaqueer 2 – Unconditionally (Summer 2022) is an Active Art documentary theater project for transgender and non-binary people, that aims to investigate the working and economical discriminations, their manifestations, and their links and connections with other forms of discrimination spread in the society. Therefore, the involved playwrights have interviewed people that experience already in their daily life also other forms of discrimination such us misogyny, transphobia, queerphobia or racism.
Though, is another imaginary possible?
What would happen, if nobody would experience economic uncertainty?
Would such dynamics and forms of discrimination be shaped differently?
dramaqueer Summer 2021 Edition was an Active Art playwriting and writing for stage workshop dedicated to transgender and non-binary members of the LGBTQAI+ community. The core theme of the workshop was the discrimination within our community towards trans and non-binary people, using observation and self-observation, auto-representation, reflection, and auto-fiction.
Each participant developed in the workshop a 10 minutes play. All 5 plays written have been presented in a professional public reading performance hosted by TrashEra Studio @ Wilde Renate, followed by a talkback with the audience.
Workshop facilitator and project coordinator – Bogdan Georgescu, playwright and theatre director.
The performance Antigen/Tremors/The Perfect Hour was part of the queer theater festival PEARLS, PARADOXES AND ECSTASY organized within the Triumf Amiria. Muzeul Culturii Queer [?] project. TRIUMF AMIRIA. Muzeul Culturii Queer [?] is a project which aims to reclaim the queer cultural production of the past 20 years, focused on three directions: literature, visual arts and performative arts, started by Asociația MozaiQ in partnership with Muzeul Național al Literaturii Române, Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Centrul de Teatru Educațional Replika and artist Kjersti Vetterstad (Norway). The project offers all throughout 2021, a series of events meant to underline the importance of queer culture in decades past, but also to encourage new cultural productions through exhibits, workshops, guided tours, theater shows and performances, public readings, and networking events.
