"In a queer global history of the performing arts, the German dramaturge and performer Max-Philip Aschenbrenner describes two fundamental alliances this art form has to confront in order to unleash its potential. On the one hand, it has to bethink itself of its inherent affinity to care and cultivation but also – if one follows Aschenbrenner’s argument – its “developmental historical” connection to the weapon and, by extension, with destruction and wastefulness. On the other, it is impossible, Aschenbrenner insists, to understand bourgeois theater outside of the context of its colonial history and aesthetics – up to this day."