Call me Paris

In her theatrical memoir Call Me Paris director and writer Yana Eva Thönnes follows the eerily similar stories of two doppelgängers: Paris Hilton, hotel heiress and famous it-girl, self-proclaimed inventor of the selfie and star against her will in the sex-tape 1 Night in Paris, released online by her ex-boyfriend, and a young girl from Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, whose nickname is Paris and who finds herself in her own version of 1 Night in Paris. On stage, Yana Eva Thönnes looks into the traumatic memories of these two blond girls and sets out to dissect the context in which these true cases could happen: the noughties as the last truly misogynist decade with the early internet just beginning to spread. Trying to regain the power of her image and ultimately of herself, Paris sets out on an uncanny journey into the past: How did she become Paris? Where is that tape? And if she is not more than a copy of an original, who is the girl on the tape? Who is the person behind that persona?

performance in German and English with Italian subtitles

Duration: 1h and 30 minutes