Popcorn Machine

My!Laika

France
Fri 07.11.2025, 7:00 PM Sat 08.11.2025, 6:30 PM HOT Reithalle, Schiffbauergasse 16 Price category A: 21 euros / concessions 14 euros (Evening box office: +2 euros) Circensian Theatre, 55 minutes, minor dialogue in different languages

A battered old honkytonk piano, with a noisy ventilator perched atop, a suitcase full of dismantled mannequin body parts, a chandelier, an acrobatic bicycle and a trapeze hanging menacingly empty over the centre of the stage. Four twisted and dishevelled figures vie for attention with increasingly absurd ideas and ever more outlandish actions. Hard to tame, rough, desperate, merciless and ambivalent. As if Frank Zappa, Jackie Chan, Kurt Schwitters and the Ramones had got together for a wrestling match, this punk-pop-art circus lurches back and forth between doomsday cabaret, domestic apocalypse and farcical cosmic humour.

My!Laika is a European group of artists, founded in 2009. Inspired by Dadaism, the company left the terra firma of classic acrobatics behind several years ago, graduating to combinations of absurdist theatre and wild circus cabaret, like characters from a Fellini film or a Kafka novel. The culmination of these genre-bending works is award-winning circus spectacles that explore the vast realms between theatre, music and the visual arts with great intensity and passion. Popcorn Machine, is a fast-paced, sensual spectacle full of contorted, symbolic imagery, brilliant artistry and surprising effects, wherein the ensemble combines live music with a new type of circus.

Co-production Transversales – Scène Conventionnée de Verdun
Supervision PACT – dispositif mutualisé Lido – Grainerie
Supported by Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe 2009–2010, Le Lido, La Grainerie, Santa Briganti – Associazione Culturale, Scuola Romana di Circo, DéFI Jeunes
Residence Espace Athic, La Grainerie, CIRCa – Pôle National des Arts du Cirque, Auch – L’Usine, Lieu Conventionné pour les Arts de la rue, Mix'art Myrys, Teatro Mattatoio, La Commanderie de Vaour, Svetvinčenat, Theateropdemarkt & Dommelhof, Centre Culturel de Ramonville

Direction My!Laika, Florent Bergal Cast Philine Dahlmann, Salvatore Frasca, Elske van Gelder, Eva Ordoñez Benedetto Costume design My!Laika Lighting My!Laika, Luca Baraldo Sound My!Laika, Alessandro Angius Tour management Nico Agüero Administration Les Thérèses

Photo Francis Rodor

Kindly supported by Hans Otto Theater

Ensembles


Sahara
Claudia Castellucci/Mòra Company – Italy
La Manékine
Compagnie La Pendue – France
EXIT
Fekete Seretlek & Studio Damúza – Czechia
The Third Hand
Handa Gote Research & Development – Czechia
Popcorn Machine
My!Laika – France
Negative Space
Reckless Sleepers – Belgium / Great Britain
Secured Territory
RUE OBSCURE – Germany
SOHLE EINS-ACHTZIG
schoenbrodtkuerschner – Germany
IMPOSTOR
Thomas Noone Dance – Spain
RAUM ∙ ZEIT
Tobias Piero Dohm – Germany
Concert
Fekete Seretlek – Czechia
Concert
Rufus Temple Orchestra – Germany

Contact

Address

T-Werk, Internationales Theater- und Theaterpädagogikzentrum
Schiffbauergasse 4 E, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

Telefon

Phone: +49 331 73042626
Fax: +49 331 73042633