Collective Storytelling Engines: On All Fours—A Staged Reading

What if the end is the beginning? What if the second half of life is completely different from what we imagine? A woman disappears from her life and her marriage—not quietly, not orderly, but “On All Fours” (KiWi, 2024, translated from English by Stefanie Jacobs). Her journey across the U.S. begins as a road movie but then leads straight into the feminine heart of darkness: menopause. She strays from the path, ends up in a motel room, and reinvents herself there: dreaming, in pain, and with deeply stirring desire.

Following its spectacular comic book readings from *In the Hall of Mirrors* and *I Don’t Feel It*, the feminist artist collective storytelling engines once again brings Miranda July’s globally acclaimed prose to the stage, telling the story of a woman who stops functioning—and thereby begins to live.
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Photo: Wirth/Bartdorff/Biallowons

*Content Note: Sexual acts are described explicitly.

Performance: Isabella Bartdorff, Tjadke Biallowons, Lucy Wirth
Outside Eye: Tom Schneider
Set design: Christina Berger

Organizer: storytelling engines
Supported by the Cultural Affairs Office of the City of Freiburg and LaFT Baden-Württemberg

Date: December 11, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Literaturhaus Freiburg, Bertoldstraße 17
Performances: December 9, 10, and 11, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
Admission: 17/13 euros

Guest performance
Literaturhaus