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Katharsis
A person stands on a stage. you look at him This is the moment when theater is born. But what if that person looks back? When he looks at you? Then what happens? Is that still theatre? Or was a golden rule broken?
After the plays THE INTERPRETATION OF TRAUM by SIGMUND FREUD and EVERYTHING THE FALL is, the Irish director and author duo Dead Center has dedicated its third work to the Academy Theater to the body. Inspired by stories from Olga Tokarczuk's novel Unrast, the evening begins with an actor entering the stage and realizing that he has a body. This may seem obvious - after all, we all have one - but we only really notice that we have bodies when something very simple happens: someone looks at us. In this moment we are all actors, forced to play a role that we may not like. Whoever looks at us defines us, gains power over us. Hence the importance of ultimately checking: who is looking and who is being looked at?
The threads of KATHARSIS weave from ancient Greek tragedy to modern anatomy theater: the story of an actor and his body, which is no longer his own on stage - and about what is in him and what can be gleaned from him. He can no longer decide about its meaning. Is he dead? In any case, he sacrifices himself. He becomes a character.
Subject to change.
After the plays THE INTERPRETATION OF TRAUM by SIGMUND FREUD and EVERYTHING THE FALL is, the Irish director and author duo Dead Center has dedicated its third work to the Academy Theater to the body. Inspired by stories from Olga Tokarczuk's novel Unrast, the evening begins with an actor entering the stage and realizing that he has a body. This may seem obvious - after all, we all have one - but we only really notice that we have bodies when something very simple happens: someone looks at us. In this moment we are all actors, forced to play a role that we may not like. Whoever looks at us defines us, gains power over us. Hence the importance of ultimately checking: who is looking and who is being looked at?
The threads of KATHARSIS weave from ancient Greek tragedy to modern anatomy theater: the story of an actor and his body, which is no longer his own on stage - and about what is in him and what can be gleaned from him. He can no longer decide about its meaning. Is he dead? In any case, he sacrifices himself. He becomes a character.
Subject to change.
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