




In an eternal cycle of therapy sessions and discussions with doctors, seven patients try out medication, meditate, make art, do sport - but the pain remains. Nothing seems to happen to the women in the clinic and yet everything is in constant, minimal motion. Time passes differently, somewhere between despair and hope. In Germany, 17% of the population suffers from chronic pain, 80% of those affected are women. In ‘Pain Camp’, author Patty Kim Hamilton searches for the everyday, the humour, the tenderness, the simplicity before the dark abyss of chronic pain. Language and dialogue are based on real conversations and hospital questionnaires - enriched by choral passages, poetry and performative images of nature that open up a new dimension: Where do we find comfort and what can a path through pain look like?
Director Christiane Pohle returns to Bremen to stage the world premiere of Hamilton's plea for honest listening and communities of solidarity. Together with the actresses and her team, she creates an atmospheric cosmos of moving images, soundscapes, sounds, dreams and memories that is personal, intimate and at the same time political. What does pain do to life? And what does life do to pain?