I’m a girl you
can hold IRL

           drama • written & directed • Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin, 2024

photo credits: Elin Laut, Ute Langkafel

»I’m a girl you can hold IRL, that’s my promise.
And you do hold me.
You stroke my silicon arms,
caress my wired neck,
kiss my latex lips.
Did you ever ask yourself, Pygmalion,
why you can only love something
that was born from your rib?«

A science fiction adaptation of Ovid’s classic, I’m a girl you can hold IRL is about love in the 21st century, loneliness, narcissism, singularity and emancipation (fembots have feelings too).
It tells the story of Pygmalion, in this iteration a lovesick roboticist instead of a sculptor, and Galatea, the perfect robot companion he built (who bears an uncanny resemblance to the girlfriend that just left him).
After he brings Galatea to life, Pygmalion is confronted with the existential horror of getting exactly what you asked for.

With: Sofia Iordanskaya, Tim Freudensprung
Stage Design: Hyun Vin Kaspers
Music: Fee Aviv Dubois
Video: Luna Zscharnt
3D Animations: Berfîn Karakurt
Makeup Concept: Leana Ardeleanu
Nail Art: Polly Warns
Light Design: Christian Gierden
Dramaturgy: Murat Dikenci