STASILAND - Basingstoke Discovery Centre - Saturday 4th October 2025

STASILAND

Basingstoke Discovery Centre

Saturday 4th October 2025

10.00am to 10.30am or 11.30am to 12.00pm

STASILAND is a dance-theatre work that utilises live music, dance, costume and set design to tell its multiple but interconnected stories.

Welcome to a dance-theatre piece set in the shredded document ruins of East Germany. As we delve into a world of total surveillance where anxiety is the regime, poignant stories of connection and loss are revealed.

Through a series of choreographed vignettes audiences are immersed in the stories of East Germans living under the eye of the Stasi and their informants. Follow our characters as they discover, through the reconstruction of documents left in the wake of the former police state, the secrets of their own lives. While audiences begin as the surveillant, watching these stories unfold, they may soon get the sense that they too are being watched.

Inspired by the book Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder & designed in the round for audiences in Galleries, Libraries & Theatres.