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  a non-stop performance installation in Berlin-Schöneberg/Germany The 2nd of Maj 2008 SIGNA will continue the large scale project in collaboration with Schauspiel Köln and Info at Berliner Festspiele. The audience is invited into a complete town of 22 houses (including shops, bar, restaurant and peep show) with adjoining military quarters inhabited by more than 40 performers. Time: Friday the 2th of May at 18.00h until Saturday the 10th of May at 24.00h, nonstop Place: Locomotive Hall in the Nature-Park of the Schöneberger Südgelände Berlin Schöneberg. Transport: S2 or S25 to station "Priesterweg" Tickets: Available at the box office only (no pre-sale). Ticket hotline to come Price: 25,- € (reduced 12,- €) for a period of 12 hours Link: Info at Berliner Festspiele In 1880 a girl at around the age of 10 appeared in the German village Schwarza by the temporary camp of the Cirque Rubin. The girl never revealed her past and as no one claimed the child, she was taken into care by the circus and was given the name Martha Rubin. She became a graceful dancer and a remarkable horse rider, but it was her dark gift as an oracle that won her fame as a fairground attraction all over Europe. Martha Rubin gave birth to 17 children out of marriage. 7 of them - including the Siamese twins Marthina and Corina, she raised together with the female sword swallower Cora Torrini. In 1913 Martha Rubin disappeared without a trace from the Romanian harbor city Constanza Throughout the many years after her disappearance Martha Rubin has reappeared on several European locations. A vast amount of footage and audio recordings document these occurrences. In 1933 the relatives of Martha Rubin formed The Martha Rubin Society to collect and to understand the signs and traces of the oracle. In our time most of Martha Rubin´s descendants live in Ruby Town, a settlement in the borderland between the North and the South State. For more than 30 years Ruby Town has been of special interest to the North State military, not only because of the illegal trade with the South but also due to an inexplicable radiation. In the Locomotive Hall, a large industrial hall, Ruby Town is built from materials normally discarded by our civilization – scrap, wrecks and garbage are the basis for the artificial European settlement which huddles in the borderland between two walls. Narrow and twisted alleys lead through the labyrinthine heart of Ruby Town to a shrine that for many years has contained the few belongings of the disappeared oracle. Now Martha Rubin herself has come back to Ruby Town from the limbo in which she was trapped and the descendants gather around to listen to her dark visions. Concept Signa Sørensen & Arthur Köstler Directing Signa Sørensen Production Design Signa Sørensen Thomas Bo Nilsson Arthur Köstler Media & Technical Design Arthur Köstler Set Design Thomas Bo Nilsson Assisting Set Design Linn Lamberg Dramaturge Sybille Meier Technical Line-Production Andreas Weismann Martin Kammann Pre-Production Management littlebitcologne Cast Ana Valeria González Andreas Nickel Angelika Christ-Dyrda Arthur Köstler Birgitte Klebel Dominik Klingberg Ebbe Herman Sørensen Emil Groth Larsen Emily Kraus Frank Bätge Frank Morath Gabi Hift Gregor Kukwa Gry Worre Hallberg Ilil Land-Boss Jeanne Helene Dolberg Elkjær Jenny Steenken Jens Ibsen Kure Judith Fraune Juri Padel Kathrin Osterberg Katrin Wälz Louisa Aisin Mareike Wenzel Maria Pía Bertoldi Marie-Lydie Nokouda Max Pross Momo Subotic Nina Hellenkemper Nina Sigurd Norbert Thomé Sarah Türks Saskia Rüsenberg Signa Sørensen Sol Montaldo Stig Eivind Vatne Stefanie Mühlhan Thomas Bo Nilsson Toaseef Chughtai Tom Wirtz Tristan Alexander Kold Christensen Ulf Rathjen Kring Hansen Supported by   Thanks Family Ekjær Sørensen Family Köstler KIT SEAS Matthias Lilienthal Mc Korman Tapetorama  |