She is an actor in her early sixties when she suddenly starts losing her hair in tufts. This is, she realizes, decay setting in; time is the killer. Or is she suffering from a sickness? As she gets pushed out of the theatre business, she purloins the wig she wore on stage from the make-up department and has it DNA-tested. It’s the start of a journey through the history of the origins and traditions of the wig – a history of vanity, theft, violence, and power imbalances.

In her play Haare/Hair, Manuela Infante, one of the most exciting theatremakers in South America, investigates how much we really want to know about the entanglements of global trade. Infante deftly zooms in on the reality of a cultural-historical niche that is intricately linked with notions of beauty, aging, and illness. Manuela Infante writes – poetically, philosophically and with striking sense for imagery – a polyphonic monologue around a collective snarl that is finally raising its voice.

With Manuela Infante and Ensemble
Moderator: Anna-Katharina Müller

Event languages are English and German