‹Ssassin’s Creed (Lady says Stop)› explores what happens when someone’s sense of power, authority or place in society is shaken—or entirely removed. Some collapse into victimhood, losing themselves in loops of self-referential thought; others elevate themselves as chosen ones, driven by a messianic conviction that they must fix or change the world. From these ruptures, new figures emerge: cult leaders, lone actors, people on missions no one asked for. Who do we become when we feel humiliated, unseen or stripped of power? What kinds of violence do we justify under the banner of change or “revolution”?

In the performance, Liina Magnea embodies the figure of a police officer, reenacting institutional authority while simultaneously dismantling it through humour, distorted language and choreographic intervention. The officer appears in crisis, her authority unsettled by social scrutiny and internal doubt.

✳︎ The performance will be in English. The performance makes use of violent and aggressive language. The text is not a theatre text but rather screaming and ordering people around, it’s not important to understand as in a theatre play.

Concept and Performance: Liina Magnea
Costume: Anna Philippa Müller
Production Partner: Centrale di Fies
Funding: Schirn KunsthalleFrankfurt, Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Berlin

Liina Magnea is a Berlin-based artist, choreographer, performer and musical composer whose work revolves around character, transformation and unstable identities. Through shape-shifting choreography, she merges and mutates archetypes, allowing characters to slip between authority, vulnerability, absurdity and menace. Drawing on internet culture and her concept of the “post-brutal,” Magnea combines music, movement and film dramaturgy to explore psychological fragility, compulsive behaviour and the strange figures produced by contemporary life.