Terminale Hysteria

“Good evening! Welcome ! Bienvenuex! Willkommen to the Bar of the Big Lollipop! Benvenutti to Your father is so small that his head stinks of feet! Welcomex to Le Maladex Imaginairex de Molièrex! Herzlich Willkomen to Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus! Welcomex to why ugly women don’t like men? Why?”

Karen Karen in “Terminale Hysteria”

Welcome to Terminale Hysteria, a kitsch and cruel city filled with big cats, princesses with long nose, characters in three-piece suits and walking faeces. Inspired by satiric television sketches, John Waters movies and Valerie Solanas’ play Up Your Ass, Tatiana Baumgartner and Léa Katharina Meier, alongside Maria Fernanda Ordoñez and Dominique Gilliot, are creating a grotesque universe with a frenetic and emancipating atmosphere. Terminale Hysteria is a farce that caricatures conservative ways of thinking, in order to point out their ridiculousness. Through laughs and silliness, the four performers will embody violent states and representations, in an attempt to rid themselves of oppressive norms for the duration of a show by reimagining the fears that inhabit them. Punctuated by re-enactments of domestic violence, focus groups, board meetings, heart attacks and cabaret acts, Terminale Hysteria creates a playground for glee and the pleasure of moving beyond the nightmarish political visions that surround us.