bodytalk // Westfalen Side Story

In the organizer's words:

Better a stallion parade than a military parade. Or even better: hit parade! Where Hossa Nova is at home and The Girl from Ibbenbüren is played up and down at every Schützenfest - as a remnant of the Schützenfest - bodytalk discover a new La La Land: Westphalia. Their musical doesn't need the City of Angels as a backdrop; the magic unfolds between agriculture and inbreeding, customs and abuse in the provinces. Province? Pro tiny! Here, no mess is too small for the stage, oh no: the pig is the star! For example in the Sausage Committee: an organization of pigs that was founded to protect love and peace. And where, as a mourning ritual, a sausage is eaten for every life lost. Sounds cannibalistic - and it is. WESTFALEN SIDE STORY invites you to a great musical slaughter festival. People and animals sing and dance, barbecue and ask themselves: Is life just something you can eat? Hossa!

Directed by Reisa Shimojima, Yoshiko Waki Stage/ Costume Nanako Oizumi Live music Rafael Weisz by and with René Haustein, Tirza Ben Zvi, German Farias, Amy Pender, Martijn Joling, Paweł Malicki, Nona Siepmann, Rolf Baumgart Photo production Co-production with Mensch: Theater! - unterwegs e.V. and Theater im Pumpenhaus supported by 2-Rad Hansen GmbH funded by the LWL-Kulturstiftung as part of the cultural program for the anniversary year 2025 "1250 Jahre Westfalen" (patron Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier), the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Excellence Promotion Dance), the Cultural Office of the City of Münster.