Realists · Shifra Kazhdan

The work

Realists is a site-specific audio play set inside an ordinary Berlin apartment. The audience enters a real living space and listens to the everyday conversations of an adult family of three. There is no theatrical exposition: the work unfolds through fragments of domestic speech, relationships and routines that seem to be continuing whether or not anyone is listening.

The play exists in two casting versions — performed entirely by men or entirely by women — while the family structure and text remain the same. This shift changes how intimacy, care, authority and dependence are read without changing the domestic situation itself.

The apartment becomes a small model of a possible future: not a spectacular utopia, but a lived environment in which another arrangement of relationships is already present. Realists asks the audience to enter that space not as observers of a distant scenario, but as temporary guests inside it.

The festival

Emigration to the Future was an interdisciplinary festival that took place in Berlin-Wedding, 7–9 August 2026, bringing together artists, performers and researchers from seven countries working across performance, installation, video, sound and public intervention. Curated by Vsevolod Lisovsky and Anton Polski (MAKE / Citizen Make), across venues including exBrache, Chto Delat and public space around Wedding.

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