Are the far right coming to power? Is the cultural funding being cut? Do you have panic attacks at night and no idea what to do? Don’t worry! The SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL is here for you. Our expertise? Years of survival in dictatorships, under tyrants, and right-wing governments. In short: we’ve already experienced everything you’re about to experience. So listen carefully! What should you pack in your escape backpack? What breathing techniques will help you keep a clear head? And where can you still emigrate to? Survival strategies from real chaos natives – we can do it!
Premiere – October 3, 2025 at the opening of the season of the Theater RAMPE (Stuttgart, Germany)
Concept, direction, text: Ada Mukhína
Performance: Ada Mukhína, Calum Perrin
Music, lyrics: Calum Perrin
Video design: Maja Zagórska
Production management: Marit Buchmeier, Lisanne Grotz (xplusdrei Produktionsbüro)
Title image: Evgeniia Chapaikina
Costumes: Ada Mukhína, Maja Zagórska
Sound design: Calum Perrin
Choreography: Daria Iuriichuk
Editing: Marit Buchmeier
Audio description: Valentin Leuschel, Peter Luttringer
THANKS TO: Dr. Duška Radosavljević for her chapter on gig theater in the book “Aural/Oral dramaturgies”; to Mathias Drücker, Jules, Mxgdo, and Sara Pyakurel. Thanks to our various interview partners, including: Vöcks de Schwindt, Robin Leveroos, Maja Zagórska, Calum Perrin, xplusdrei, and our test audience for their feedback. Thanks to Theater RAMPE, especially the technical team.
SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL is a production by Ada Mukhina in co-production with RAMPE. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Pleasure Incorporated (2024)
Pleasure incorporated is a new play exploring escorting and childhood sexual abuse by award-winning theatremaker Jemima Foxtrot which premiered at the English Theatre Berlin in February 2024.
Pleasure Incorporated asks what it would be like if the oldest profession in the world was just a regular office job. Drawn from Jemima's experience of escorting in Berlin, this lyrical one-woman show fuses live performance with video art to explore her personal motivations for selling sex; what it means for her to do the work, and how that spools out into friendships, relationships and society.
Written and Performed by Jemima Foxtrot
Co-devised and Directed by Lucy Allan
Stage and Video Design by Maja Zagórska
Composition by Joe Ackroyd
Sound Design by Bernhard Hollinger
duration 60 min
Shown at:
2026UK Tour
2025 Berliner Festspiele as part of 100° Diaspora, Performing Exiles
2024 English Theater Berlin as part of 10th Expo
Trailer
https://vimeo.com/1037431584?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Funded by:
Artistic Research Grant from Ausland, Berlin
English Theater Berlin Project Grant
Otello, Opera Spanga, NL, 2024
video design Marjan Boukes
animation and VFX Maja Zagórska
assisted by Joske Commandeur and Jessica Boerstra
Reviews (selection)
by Peter 't Hart for Opera Magazine NL, · July 15, 2024,
The second reason why this opera is remembered, is the animation (created by Maja Zagórska and two assistants). [...] It gives the performance atmosphere and content. The fact that these paintings begin to move completes the image.
https://www.operamagazine.nl/recensies/69876/otello-afwisseling-tussen-verdi-en-spanga/
by Kester Freriks for Theaterkrant, NL July 15, 2024
Inside, designer De Rooij has created something truly magnificent with the help of brilliant video footage: seventeenth- and nineteenth-century paintings come to life with waves, sea monsters, moving figures,...
Food Fight (2023)
Director Rebecca Scott
Associate Director Holly Barnard
Writer Jemima Foxtrot in collaboration with Marcela Dias, Dawn Robinson, Carina Zox, Rebecca Scott and Holly Barnard
Set Charlotte Morache
Costume & Props Marjan Boukes
Video Design Maja Zagórska
Lighting Design Claudine Castay
Sound/Music Aude Langlois
Performed by Marcela Dias, Dawn Robinson and Carina Zox
trailer:
Zusammen Fallen
Neuköllner Oper, 2024
A Ritualopera by Andys Skordis And Jelena Vuksanovic
COMPOSITION AND MUSICAL DIRECTION Andys Skordis
TEXT Jelena Vuksanovic
STAGE DIRECTOR Miriam Götz
STAGE DESIGN Charlotte Morache
VIDEO Maja Zagórska
DRAMATURGY, EDITING, TRANSLATION Änne-Marthe Kühn
with Nina Guo, Sophie Catherin and Caroline Schnitzer and the musicians Andys Skordis (live-electronics, guitar, synthesizer) and Exdoxia Filippou (percussion)
trailer:
