GRACE ELLEN BARKEY (IND/NL) & NEEDCOMPANY (BE)
THIS DOOR IS TOO SMALL (FOR A BEAR)

This is a fact: there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand in the Sahara desert. Imagine that everything could speak. What a noise! Cosmic soundscape! Unbind your mind! International absurdities, universal illusions, cosmic disorientation. That’s what we need to keep mother earth spinning! Grace Ellen Barkey

For their German premiere, Grace Ellen Barkey & Needcompany are presenting their most recent work ›This door is too small (for a bear)‹ (working title). In collaboration with artist Lot Lemm, who again took on stage design, Barkey has created a place brimming with radical poetry. People turn into figures and figures become myths, which Barkey imbues with new life in a surreal alternate world: no aspect of human life is unfamiliar – neither grand failure, the tragedy of a clown, nor the clumsy barbarity of sexuality.
The last work by Grace Ellen Barkey & Needcompany to be presented at PACT Zollverein was ›The Porcelain Project‹ in 2008.

Link to a broadcast on Belgian TV on ›THIS DOOR IS TOO SMALL (FOR A BEAR)‹ >>>