Missed Abortion: A cooking performance about loss, closeness, and newfound speaking
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A dinner that breaks the silence
When the cooking performance Missed Abortion: The Dinner Is Served begins in the knowledge workshop Bielefeld on November 18, 2026, a mundane act becomes a powerful stage experience. Laura Parker cooks, tells stories, and opens a dialogue space for a topic that is socially present yet often remains invisible: unwanted pregnancy loss.
Cooking as a theatrical language
The production relocates central moments of stage art into a kitchen. Ingredients are prepared, peeled, and cut, while personal experiences of those affected and voices from medicine interact with each other. The dramaturgy connects sensory perception with societal research, making the cooking process a visible, audible, and immediately tangible part of the performance.
In the warm atmosphere of a shared meal, acoustics, movement, and smell meet the concentrated presence of the performer. The stage design by Änne Hahn does not create a distant observation space but a place of closeness. The directorial concept focuses on action instead of abstract explanation: the inner self is turned outward, vulnerability takes on a tangible form.
Between personal experience and medical knowledge
Missed Abortion views miscarriages both as individual experiences and as medical and societal issues. Facts and experiences stand side by side without simplifying the occurrence. This leads to a production whose strength lies in the connection of acting, performance, and dialogue.
Laura Parker develops the work as an actress and performer. Almut Wedekind is responsible for dramaturgy, Änne Hahn for stage design. Together they create a form that does not rely on spectacular effects: a knife on the cutting board, the hissing of a pan, and the shared meal become theatrical signs of loss, care, and the possibility of finding words.
A protected space for exchange
In the end, the prepared vegan meal is shared collectively. Anyone who wishes can engage in conversation with other visitors. The audience's reaction arises not only in applause but also in attention, listening, and the willingness to endure a topic often repressed.
The offer is aimed at adults. Nothing needs to be brought except hunger and openness for a sensitive stage experience. The event combines a theatrical atmosphere, knowledge transfer, and communal dining into an unusual form of cultural encounter.
Conclusion: Theatre that dares to be close
Missed Abortion: The Dinner Is Served promises no light entertainment but a precise, sensual, and touching cooking performance. Visitors experience a production that transforms societal silence into action and makes a shared meal a moment of exchange. Those who want to experience contemporary stage art with attitude will find an evening here that lingers long after.
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