Handle with care [Cine-teatru la Reactor] 14+

Gob Squad & neighbours of Mehringplatz
Handle With Care – An instruction

When you’re sad, lonely or completely overwhelmed, then grandma, dad, your best friend or your neighbour steps in to make you a hearty soup. Together, you savour its warmth as you start to put the world to rights... If only! Most of us live far away from this fictional grandma or family, don’t even know the name of the supposedly friendly neighbour, and the best friend has their own shit to deal with.

In a world which puts capital over care, Gob Squad, accompanied by HAU to connect, have tried to get to know the neighbourhood. Time and again they have been guests at Mehringplatz and were warmly welcomed. Now it’s time to return the hospitality. Together with the neighbours, Gob Squad take over HAU1 to cook, talk, eat and sing together – and to ask under what circumstances we can come together. “Handle With Care” is in search of new communities and new approaches towards a better world.

Concept & Direction: Gob Squad

Performed and devised by: Inas Abdul Majid, Jenin Abdul Majid, Ayah Al-Ghaily, Gizem Akman, Bernhard, Setara Bobani, Yusuf Efe Caliskan, Johanna Freiburg, Azadeh Ganjeh, Haifa, Sean Patten, Lamisha Rahman, Salma Salaheldin, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost, Simon Will;

the choir „Eskimeyenler topluluğu“ / “Timeless Community” (Sevinc Anac, Talip Gözdereliler, Mahire Güler-Selek, Kiraz Akyar Hörold, Meltem Kazancioglu, Gülay Kösker, Sabri Kömürcü, Güllü Sert, Berrin Ulutürk, Songül Uzunpinar, Gönül Vapurcu, Emine Zwanzig) accompanied by Askin Aras (piano) and under the direction of Askin Büyükuzun;

the Clinic of Broken Things;

and participants of KiezKochen (Alessia del Vigo, Miriam D., Mo Mara Hundt, Jacqueline Koch, Renate Kutscher, Kenan Oymak, Reinhild Religion and Katarina Stricevic)

Sound Design: Manuela Schininà

Video Design: Miles Chalcraft, Noam Gorbat

Costume Design: Emma Cattell, Sarah Thom

Set Design and Technical Management: Amina Nouns

Lighting Design: Max Wegner

Dramaturgy and Production: Christina Runge

Artistic Collaboration: Nora Vollmond

Videoclip Mehringplatz: Marlene Blumert

Intern Direction: Felix Zilles-Perels

Intern Costumes: Bita Asadi

Intern Video: Eliana Malena Bussas

Company Management: Marta Hewelt

Funding & Financial Planning: Caroline Gentz, Eva Hartmann (until July 2023)

Touring & Public Relations: Talea Schuré

Financial Planning & Production: Grischa Schwiegk

World premiere on 1 st Dec 2023 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin (HAU1)

With special thanks to all partners from Mehringplatz: Abdulkader Asli & choir, Begegnungsstätte Mehring-Kiez, Café MadaMe, Mizza Caric, F1 Stadtteilzentrum, Richard Herbst, die „Kiezkrähen“, Kreuzberger Musikalische Aktion e.V., Merle Brüser (Gewobag), Outreach Berlin, Stadtteilmütter from Mehringplatz, TubeZ, Urbane Praxis e.V., Quartiersmanagement Mehringplatz, Beate Zeiss, Emine Zwanzig; and Rhiannon White from the British artists' collective Common Wealth for their ongoing advice and professional support in all matters relating to the development of “Handle with Care“; as well as Stella Konstantinou and the team from HAU to connect, HAU's outreach programme, whose practice we are building on.

“Handle With Care“ is a production by Gob Squad. In Coproduction with HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Schauspiel Leipzig and HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden.

Supported by Senatsverwaltung fuer Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt and Fonds Darstellende Kuenste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Gob Squad is regularly funded by the state of Berlin (2024 – 2027), Chancellery of the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe.
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Performance in Arabic, German, English, Farsi and Turkish
Subtitles: EN
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Duration: 115 min
Age: 14+
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The screening will be preceded by a brief introduction of the company and followed by a discussion with the audience and a member from the artistic team (joining online).

A cultural project cofinanced by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The Administration of the National Cultural Fund is not responsible for the content of the project or the manner in which the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.