Joy is not a Metaphor
Thu Oct 29, 4pm
Diasporic movement workshop
This event is in the past.It took place on October 12, 2026 at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.
Mitte, Berlin
🎭English subtitles available at select performances
🎪Quesne's first production at this iconic Berlin theater
💺Check seat numbers carefully — row numbering is unusual
Step inside a crumbling ghost train where a fading circus family clings to their last act. Philippe Quesne's first Volksbühne production weaves melancholy, utopia, and dread into a darkly whimsical spectacle.
Darkly whimsical theater
Abandoned fairground aesthetic
Multilingual ensemble
Melancholy and dystopia
Mitte, Berlin
🎭English subtitles available at select performances
🎪Quesne's first production at this iconic Berlin theater
💺Check seat numbers carefully — row numbering is unusual
Step inside a crumbling ghost train where a fading circus family clings to their last act. Philippe Quesne's first Volksbühne production weaves melancholy, utopia, and dread into a darkly whimsical spectacle.
Darkly whimsical theater
Abandoned fairground aesthetic
Multilingual ensemble
Melancholy and dystopia
Matches these interests
- Darkly whimsical theater
- Abandoned fairground aesthetic
- Multilingual ensemble
- Melancholy and dystopia
- Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
- Mitte
- Berlin
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