The Kids are alright
“Our children should have things better than we did”, our parents said.
“Our children should have things better than we did”, we say.
Our parents came here. We grew up here.
We are children of the 1990s. And we are still living in Germany. Our parents had to explain Solingen, Mölln and Rostock-Lichtenhagen to us. We are talking with our children about Halle and Hanau.
The Kids Are Alright is dedicated to the family histories, generational conflicts, political struggles and visions for the future in families with a heritage of migration. The installation brings voices from a variety of communities together. Six adults speak about growing up with racism, translate the hopes and aspirations of their parents for themselves and the political work that they do for future generations as a psychologist, antifascist activist or migration researcher.
“Our children should have things better than we did”, our parents said.
“Our children should have things better than we did”, we say.
Photo: Theresa Reiwer
Photos: Mayra-Wallraff, Theresa Reiwer
CONCEPT Simone Dede Ayivi
VIDEO Jones Seitz
STAGE DESIGN Theresa Reiwer
SOUND, MUSIC Katharina Pelosi
LIGHTING DESIGN Frieder Miller
PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE, ASSOCIATE DRAMATURGY Selma Böhmelmann
SCENOGRAPHY ASSISTANCE Chris Erlbeck
EXTERIOR CAMERA RECORDINGS Thomas Machholz
EXPERTS Nabila Bushra, Fatma Kar, Lenssa Mohammed, Dan Thy Nguyen, Kadir Özdemir
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
TECHNICAL PRODUCTION Gefährliche Arbeit
TRAILER Kornelia Kugler, Silke Briel
A production by Simone Dede Ayivi and Accomplices in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funding by the Basisförderung program of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and financed used funds from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
The world premiere was on October 20, 2020 at Sophiensæle.
Invitation to the 2021 Impulse Theater Festival
2022 Theater im Pavillon, Hanover
2022 Impulse Theater Festival, Mühlheim an der Ruhr 2023 Flora Festival, Olomouc, Tschechien 2023 Lichthof Theater, Hamburg