Amigues Adios - Theater by Bishop Black

In Amigues Adios by Bishop Black, five performers go in search of those who shaped queer Berlin over the years and turned it into a place for living beyond the conservative boundaries of sexual and racial identity. For those who came, Berlin was a kind of harbour. They could come ashore here because rents were low and where you were from mattered far less than the here and now. Walking down the gangway, anyone could reinvent themselves, and no one knew what pain lay in the past. Outdated roles could be shed and new ways of living together negotiated. There was resistance; precarity was part of the freedom; some broke under violence and cold. But for a moment in history - so unexpected and unlikely given Germany's past - they made Berlin an open city.

Yet fear is rising again. And so the protagonists of Amigues Adios bow to the Black queer Berliners who once had the courage to make the city a promise. They honour them, drawing strength from this surreal and burlesque dance through the ages to keep going. They celebrate to taste again, on their tongues, the flavour of fearlessness and self-determination.