Drugland is not a fairytale forest. Drugland is a hotspot of crises in the heart of Cologne. At Neumarkt, the conflicts between drug addicts, dealers, residents, shop owners, law enforcement officers and social workers have become inscribed in the public space: Drugland is simultaneously a shopping zone and a drug hotspot, a long-established residential community and a no-go area, a place of help and urban destitution, a consumption- and danger zone.
With an ensemble of professional actors and people from the various interest groups, the theatre project joins the stories and positions of all those involved and brings them together to form a big picture: Who determines public space? Who shapes its rules? Whose voice is heard and who remains unheard? Who is visible and who is invisible? Who is resilient and who is powerless?
Drugland is an attempt to use a cultural project in public space to make conflicts visible and comprehensible using artistic means, to make them tangible to the senses and to dare to address a question to the future: How is it possible to live together in one space?
