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18 June – 6 July 2025, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Cologne, Düsseldorf

Hairkunft

A man is sitting on a bed covered with a green cloth. He is wearing a pink cap on his head and a pink smock covered with light brown hair. He has one leg bent and is holding something between his fingers with an outstretched arm. In front of him is a black washbasin, as if from the hairdresser, next to him a shopping basket with pre-packed salad, a preserving jar and bread rolls. An oversized black comb hangs above him. In the background is a green stage curtain.
© Florian Krauss
A man is kneeling on a bed covered with a green cloth. He is wearing a pink cap on his head and a pink smock covered with light brown hair. He has his head low on his neck while drinking from a glass jar with a white label. The vessel is reminiscent of a medicine container. In front of him on the bed is a black washbasin, as if from the hairdresser, with various objects and clutter around him and under the bed. An oversized black comb hangs above him. A green stage curtain in the background.
© Florian Krauss
A man looks intensely towards the camera, his mouth open to speak. He is wearing a shirt with a striking yellow-brown pattern. He is wearing a bicycle helmet on his head, with long, curly hair peeking out from under and above the helmet.
© Florian Krauss

Hendrik Quast

Hairkunft

Performance/Stand-up

“Quast is never distant, instead he has a radical seriousness that can generate a humour all his own. That is what makes his work so special.”  Patrick Wildermann, Tagesspiegel, 17.10.2024

Theatre-maker Hendrik Quast tackles a subject that borders on social taboos in ‘Hairkunft’ (Hair-itage), when he uses his recent hair transplant to establish a link between hair loss and upward mobility. However, the intervention as an art project seemed to be a necessary measure of deficit management, as he knows that a full mane of hair fulfils current standards of attractiveness and can therefore be a prerequisite for a change of class. But: does he have the means and opportunity to secure his hard-earned middle-class (hair) status as a working-class child in the long term with the not entirely bloodless newly acquired fullness of hair? Is there a permanent cure for hereditary hair loss? And what will be left if his chronically sick body rejects its new head of hair? In an evening reminiscent of stand-up routines, Quast uses precision and humour to combine elements from the musical film ‘The Lion King’ with live singing, body art and crowdworking to take us along on his journey between classes. Sprinkled with joyously painful moments of embarrassment, in ‘Hair-itage’ he questions the price of upward mobility, redistributes his costs to the taxpayers and ends up owing nobody anything.

Dates

19 June, 21:00
20 June, 19:00
21 June, 21:00

Tickets

Regular price: 16 €
Reduced price: 11 €
Supporters' price: 25 €
Minimum price: 6 €

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Venue

Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr

Duration

90 minutes

Discussion

On 21.06., the performance will be followed by an aftertalk (in German).

Language

German with English subtitles

Accessibility

Venue accessible for wheelchair users: Details per venue Toilet accessible for wheelchair users: Details per venue Venue accessible for people with walking disabilities: Details per venue Surtitles/Subtitles: Details per event Content note: Details per event

Age reccomendation: from 16 years