The Butcher

Cecile Rossant

Performance
May 9 & 23, 2026; 8:00 PM
Photo: Cecile Rossant
About the event

The Butcher

The Butcher, a one act solo performance, is about how war becomes inscribed in the body, language and everyday objects. We draw, cut, and engrave borders everywhere: on land, animals, and in the ‘airspace’. This act of drawing borders has become synonymous with being human.
Written & performed by CECILE ROSSANT
Directed by PAUL ERDMANN
About the artist

Cecile Rossant

Born and raised in New York City, Cecile Rossant is a writer and performer who applies a multidisciplinary approach to all her work. After earning a BA in Biology she apprenticed in the studio of the painter and architect Arakawa, an experience which inspired her to study architecture. She received a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and worked several years at the offices of Arata Isozaki & Associates in New York, Tokyo and Berlin, where she has lived since 1995.

She is the author of the novels Tokyo Bay Traffic (Red Hen Press 2008), Underground NewYork (Cornelsen Verlag 2006) and the collections of short fiction About Face (Red Hen Press2004) and Microfictions in collaboration with the artist Nana Suzuki (Pluraal Verlag 2021). Her stories and poems have appeared in many journals including Salt Hill, Exberliner, The Crucifix is Down, Bordercrossings, Graensen Grenzen, and the London Review. Her third young adult novel Fractured was published by Cornelsen Verlag at the end of 2024.

Cecile Rossant studied performance with Peter Rose and Daniela Marcozzi. She has since written and performed The Butcher, a solo one act play at the International High Fest in Yerevan, Armenia in 2024 and at Expedition Metropolis Theater in Berlin in 2025.

In collaboration with Frank Schubert and Paul Erdmann she is the co-artistic director and event curator for Galerie ADAMA.

cecilerossant.com

Paul Erdmann

Born in Wrocław, Poland in 1970. Emigrated to West Germany in 1989.
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1995 to 2002 and at the HKU University of Arts in Utrecht, the Netherlands. In 2010 emigrated to Costa Rica. Lives and works in Berlin, Wrocław and Middle America.

www.paulerdmann.de