Come a little closer. Even closer. Super close. Can you feel our age? Can you taste our experiences? Do you desire our knowledge? Which body do you reveal to me?

In TEMPTATION, nine performers aged over 60 move between lust and loss, flirtation and shame, pleasure and pain and create a statement on sexuality in old age(s) in biographical excerpts and physical snapshots. TEMPTATION embarks on a journey to stimulating, lost and obscure places and is dedicated to the visibility of individual pleasure in old age(s).

TEMPTATION is a production by the Silke Z. company and was created in 2024 in cooperation with Schauspiel Köln. The performers are made up of the OLDSCHOOL theatre ensemble from Schauspiel Köln under the artistic direction of David Vogel and performers from the Silke Z. company.

CREDITS
Artistic Direction: David Vogel, Silke Z.
Direction: David Vogel
Choreography: Silke Z.
Performance: Friedhelm Friebe, Uta Gärtel, Anne Kaute, Felicitas Martin, Hartmut Misgeld, Bettina Muckenhaupt, Mina Rahimzacleh, Gabriele Seiler-Seidler, Majid Taatizadeh, Caroline Simon
Costume: Julia Misiorny, Anette Köhler
Facilities: Anna Lachnit
Lighting design: Garlef Keßler

DATE
Saturday, 14.03.2026 I 7:30 pm
VolXbühne, Mülheim an der Ruhr
https://www.volxbuehne.de/?stucke=gastspiel-temptation-kompanie-silke-z-schauspiel-koeln

Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Photo: © Sophia Ebner