A co-production of the fringe ensemble with Kaivalya Plays, New Delhi (IN)
RAUM : RAAH is the first co-production with Kaivalya Plays New Delhi (IN) and the result of mutual visits. The project is dedicated to social, cultural and political aspects of public space based on joint research and material collections – conversations and interviews, recorded sound and image material, as well as live videos and sounds in and from both cities.
We ask and research: How do people in the two cities of Bonn and New Delhi, which could hardly be more different in terms of their history, size and culture, see, experience and use public space? What ownership claims exist, what boundaries are claimed or disregarded? How are public spaces in the two cities/countries shaped by the communities that inhabit them and vice versa?
The production will create a hybrid performance space for the transcontinental performance, in which stories, positions, artists and audiences from both countries will meet and interact. In New Delhi, impressions from Bonn will be shown in the ballroom, while impressions from New Delhi will be sent to India at the same time.
Photos from the research phase in Bonn and New Delhi.
Dates
Try-out: 22 November 2025, 4 p.m.
An evening in German, English and partly in Hindi.
Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn
Admission is free.
We would be delighted if you could register Tel. 0228 797901.
Feel free to bring your Smartphone.
From Spring 2026
Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn & Siddhartha Hall, Goethe Institut
Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn & Prestige Centre for Performing Arts (Bangalore)/ Rangshila Theatre (Mumbai).
Planned for2026
Vorstellungen in Düsseldorf und Berlin
Künstlerische Leitung, Regie: Frank Heuel (DE), Varoon P. Anand (IN)
Ausstattung / Video: Annika Ley (DE), Gaurav Singh Nijjer (IN)
Dramaturgie / PR: Claudia Grönemeyer (DE), Gaurav Singh Nijjer (IN)
Assistenz / Dramaturgie: Lutz Ackermann
Produktion / Manangement: Svenja Pauka
Mit: Nikita Bharati, Kamlesh Bourai, Riddhijit Chattopadhyay, Shiv Jha-Mathur, Bettina Marugg, Philip Schlomm, Shivani
Supported by: Goethe International Coproduction Fund, Federal City of Bonn.
