Tigers’ Kitchen

In a dark space is a brightly lit kitchen, a long table for the audience in front of it. On the menu: Four courses as well as stories about the hard work in gastro kitchens. How could this evening become unforgettable while the efforts of everyone involved will be rewarded in equal parts?

The tiger stalks the kitchen personnel in every single restaurant. It needs just one careless moment for it to strike: Something goes awry, and the perfect choreography wherein everyone knows what they must do tumbles out of sync. The pressure, high anyway, becomes unbearable. Everyone knows this moment will inevitably occur every evening, but no one knows when.

Nadja Duesterberg is an actor and a cook. During this evening, she makes visible what otherwise remains hidden: The amount of work that goes into preparing a nice evening for one’s guests – be it in the theatre or at the restaurant. She simultaneously demonstrates the potential that lies in such a congregation. In everyone present, in each course, in every gesture. Cautious connections emerge, strangers become allies, colleagues become friends, guests become a community.

TIGERS' KITCHEN are queer performative theatre makers from Cologne and Berlin who create spaces for new narratives in order to make the invisible visible therein. Following projects about working in gastronomy and in the outdoor swimming pool industry, they now dare to meld magical tricks with autofiction, directing the spotlight onto those who are important to them.

Duration: ca. 150 Min.
Language: German with english translation