LARS JUSTLARSREALLY
AGNUS DEI
Durational Performance | June 2024 | Societaetstheater | Dresden
André Wirsig
Christianity organised sexuality for thousands of years. Has forbidden, punished and humiliated. The Agnus Dei order was always different. Not needing any external regulating authority, they wanted to moan prayers on their knees. The images of the saints were fantasies for them to play with sex and power. Their most sacred commandment: consensuality. They’ve had to hide for a long time - finally they can show themselves. ‘Sing with us. List your desires, your sins, your wounds. You've come to the right place.’
‘Agnus Dei’ opens up a visit to a kinky monastic order for the audience. In the rooms of the Societaetstheater Dresden, which have been converted into a sacred space, this community shows itself to the outside world for the first time to negotiates with them about the connection between sexuality and power in a society that has inherited its values from Christianity.
A production by FEELINGS und fachbetrieb rita grechen
Concept: Jil Dreyer, Hannes Köpke, Josef Mehling, Jasmina Rezig, Julius Zimmermann
Set Design: Swantje Silber
Costume: Olivia Rosendorfer, Julia Scholz
Video: Julius Zimmermann
Production: Helena Bschaden, Marie Samrotzki
Set Design assistant: Hans Werner
Costume Intern: Emma Schwarz
Performers: Misha Alexis Anders, Ann Antidote, Jil Dreyer, Hannes Köpke, Josef Mehling,
Ferdinand Nowitzky, Jasmina Rezig, Aaron Nora Scherer, Miss Turandot (Yumo Cheng),
Lars Justlarsreally (Neupert)
‘Agnus Dei’ is a production by fachbetrieb rita grechen and FEELINGS and was co-produced by the Societaetstheater Dresden and the Riesa Efau - Kultur Forum Dresden. The project was supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by the Office for Culture and Monument Protection of the City of Dresden.