4/19/2023 0 Comments Radioeins satire show![]() Using as a starting point a real-life case in which a married couple from Calais and their two children hanged themselves, Rau confronts us with the sense of helplessness that a seemingly inexplicable act leaves behind. In his latest work » Family «, Milo Rau (Ghent) painfully explores the construct of the family and the desires and stereotypes to which it gives rise. And yet those branded with the scarlet ✺« - then for ✺dulteress«, now for ✺rtist« - have the potential to break free from the totalitarian structure. In » The Scarlet Letter «, Spanish writer, director and performer Angélica Liddell (Madrid) immerses herself in a dystopian society that is hostile to art and composed of disparate elements including the puritanical 19th century America - setting of the eponymous novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne - and the dictatorship in Bradbury’s ✿ahrenheit 451«: symbolic of a present in which art and philosophy are stigmatised in a similar way to how adultery was by Puritanism. It is a chronicle of a radical exodus from all institutions into a seemingly free counter-cosmos which nonetheless, in the face of the advancing degeneration of politics and society, proves to be a place of fatal isolation. In » Pratthana - A Portrait of Possession «, the first production from Thailand to be featured at FIND, Uthis Haemamool (writer, Bangkok), Toshiki Okada (director, Tokyo) and Yuya Tsukahara (stage designer and choreographer, Osaka) follow the experiences of a young artist from the provinces from 1992 to today and create a broad panorama of Bangkok’s artistic counter-culture which, in its excesses of sex and drugs, sets itself against every establishment. » Outside «, the new production by Kirill Serebrennikov (Moscow) who, in spite of a years-long house arrest in Russia, was impressively managing to continue directing, mirrors his own experience of repression in the character of the deceased Chinese photographer Ren Hang whose works portray a new Chinese generation in all its rebellious will to live with a nonconformist beauty that stands in stark contrast to the state-sanctioned image of youth. At the same time, the works will reflect upon the position of their own art form: the theatre as a place of confrontation with images and counterimages, with power and counterpower. In this way, the plays will uncover society’s blind spots and give space to images and narratives that are suppressed and erased from social discourse. Following the associative theme of ✼ounterimage and Counterpower«, the focus lies on productions whose content and aesthetics seek to break prevailing structures and subvert them from the margins. At the 20th Festival International New Drama you have the opportunity to experience outstanding new works by theatremakers from eight countries and three continents.
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