too much

2021 | Berlin | sophiensaele
stage design & animation

In Too Much Olympia Bukkakis crashes performance against itself. Based on her own experiences as a drag performer, the Queen of the Heavens and of the Earth, Empress of Despair, and Architect of Your Eternal Suffering devotes herself to the special relationship between performer and audience. What role do language and movement conventions play? How do they influence the special dynamic between those who watch and those who act - and who does that exclude? Using her drag skills, Olympia Bukkakis subverts the valid rules and creates personae for the various performance formats: Mistakes from the rehearsal replace virtuosic performance, and between a weather reports, an ancient Greek monologue, a cello solo and a talk show - with Oozing Gloop as special guest - languages are garbled and mixed, assumptions about the audience are dismissed. Performance archetypes are knocked from their pedestals, in order to make room for those locked out of the normative audience/performer relationship. By undertaking the impossible task of conjuring all these varied genres within one single performance, Olympia Bukkakis will create moments of connection, disruption, euphoria, and tragedy.

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE: Olympia Bukkakis
PERFORMANCE: Oozing Gloop
DRAMATURGY: Isabel Gatzke
STAGE design, VIDEO: Camille Lacadee
COSTUME: Jay Barry Matthews
SOUND: COOL FOR YOU (Vika Kirchenbauer)
LIGHT: Maika Knoblich
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Paul Niedermayer
PRODUCTION: Lisa Gehring
TEXTS: Johann Sebastian Bach, Olympia Bukkakis, Cher, Medea nach Euripides (Paul Dräger), Oozing Gloop, verschiedene Wetterberichte
PHOTOGRAPHY: MAYRA WALLRAFF
THANKS TO: Thierry Tidrow, Purrja, Elena Schmidt, Melanie Jame Wolf, Alexis Mersmann

A production by Olympia Bukkakis in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE, supported by the Capital Cultural Fund. Media partner: taz.die tageszeitung.