The Kinetic Forest theatre company was founded in Berlin in 2023, when several artists from different countries and professions found themselves here in forced exile. At that moment, the question arose: how to talk about oneself, about the new reality, about starting a new life in a foreign land?
Lara A. Treichel became the creative director, the inspiration and the person who brought these artists together. She proposed, developed and implemented the concept for the first performance together with the artists, transforming their shared experience into an artistic expression of our current pain, hopes and search for home.
This is how the 3Schwestern3 project came about, in which Chekhov’s texts were intertwined with the personal stories of the participants and Lara herself. This performance marked the beginning of Kinetic Forest — a space where art becomes a form of dialogue with reality.
Photo Denis Konovalov
The company’s aesthetic combines physicality and live music, documentary elements and visual projections. We strive to create performances that work at the intersection of theatre, dance and visual art, engaging the audience in an emotionally and intellectually rich experience. In our performances, dramatic action is intertwined with physicality and rituality, live music with electronic soundscapes, and documentary material with poetic imagination. Video and visual content become not mere decoration, but an active language that expands perception and allows the audience to immerse themselves in the world of the performance.
Kinetic Forest focuses on international collaboration, touring and participation in European festivals. We are open to partnerships, co-productions and dialogue with different audiences.
3Schwestern3 (2024)
A contemporary cabaret theatre inspired by Anton Chekhov’s play Three Sisters. The performance combines documentary monologues, live music, vocals, dance and elements of documentary theatre.
The stories of the troupe members are woven into Chekhovian motifs, revealing their experiences of emigration, cultural rupture and the search for a new identity in Berlin. The audience finds itself in a space where personal biography meets classical text, giving rise to a new interpretation of familiar themes — homesickness, lost connections and the thirst for change.
The visual atmosphere is created through live music, body work and an ironic cabaret style, transforming the performance into a festive yet bitter statement about the fragility of human hopes and resilience in the face of change.
Metamorphose (2025)
An immersive multidisciplinary performance inspired by Franz Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis. Through the language of physical theatre, dance, video projections and original music, the themes of alienation, social isolation and the erosion of human identity are explored.
The stage space is transformed into a metaphorical ‘trap room’ where the actor’s body becomes both an instrument of exploration and a symbol of the other, the rejected. The visual and acoustic elements of the performance emphasise the fragile boundaries between the inner and outer worlds, between the “I” and the ‘others’.
The project addresses the contemporary viewer as a participant, offering an experience of empathy and rethinking of one’s own boundaries and vulnerability.
