CATS of BERLIN. The Musical
Wed 07 Jun
|Revier Südost
Scrap press on, magic off: In June 2023, the music theater combo glanz&krawall will hit the site of the former Bärenquell brewery
Date & Location
07 Jun 2023, 19:00 – 22:00
Revier Südost, Schnellerstrasse 137, 12439 Berlin, Germany
About the event
Scrap press on, magic off: In June 2023, the music theater combo glanz&krawall will open on the site of the former Bärenquell brewery (today: Revier Southeast) in Niederschöneweide and show a musical open-air spectacle on four evenings about animals, garbage and things ripe for scrap relationships in patriarchy.
CATS of BERLIN is an anti-musical that breaks with the conventions of commercial musicals as well as those of classical music theatre.
When glanz&krawall watched Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit Cats on VHS for the first time, they thought: That can't have been all that dancing cats on stage have to tell!
The world premiere of the junkyard musical CATS of BERLIN is therefore a tribute to all the big and small animals that defy the neoliberal obsession with order by never allowing themselves to be fully controlled. When they break through fences, poop on freshly polished cars, or turn neatly trimmed lawns…