Damage Done // Say Goodbye To

Presentations

21-23 February, 2025Ballhaus Ost

Welcome to a living room that turns into a smouldering scene of remembering and forgetting. Here, between a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and her daughter, worlds collide: an interplay of anger, sadness, despair and disorientation. What remains when memories fade and the past becomes an unreliable companion?

Damage Done takes the audience on a journey through the fragility of memory and the construction of identity in a world that wants to save everything. The starting point is private video recordings from the family archive that were never intended for the public. But it is precisely this intimate closeness that challenges us to pause and ask questions: What does this material show – and what does it do to us who view it?

Through a collaborative process, the recordings are dissected, reinterpreted and translated into images, movements and dialogues. Alternative forms of communication emerge, transforming the stage into a multi-perspective space in which remembering and forgetting are negotiated in equal measure.

Credits

Concept, Direction:Tobias Yves Zintel
Sound Design:HYENAZ
Score:HYENAZ, Daniel Murena
Performers:Juno Meinecke, Adrienne Teicher, Anatol Käbisch, Janet Rothe, Rasmus Slätis, Karen Zimmermann, Kathryn Fischer
Director’s Assistant:Karen Zimmermann
Stage:Sabina Moncys, Tobias Yves Zintel
Camera:Shane Mcmillan
Produced by:Tobias Yves Zintel in co-operation with Ballhaus Ost