Frascati 2, 21.00 uur, op 29 t/m 31 okt om 21.30 uur
€ 14 en in combi met Fras 1: 21 euro / 10,50
tags: dance, performance
Utopia/Dystopia
In October, Frascati will be unveiling a new presentation in the Nes and in Frascati WG. Utopia/Dystopia is a programme made up of Dutch and international productions in which theatre-makers explicitly relate to our times. In which they speak out in an attempt to create order in a world from which the big ideologies have disappeared. Documentary theatre in which the personal and the political meet.
We will be showing Void Story by Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment; 1: SONGS by Nicole Beutler; Theater with dirty feet by Rabih Mroué; Venlo by the Wunderbaum collective and 2012, a text by Marjolijn van Heemstra, directed by Julie Van den Berghe (Frascati Productions).
Utopia/Dystopia presents a series of productions that sketch an apocalyptic world view. Whether this focuses on the fall of the Berlin Wall, the political situation in Beirut or the rise of a 'liveability crisis' in the Dutch town of Venlo; the productions that make up Utopia/Dystopia are all in search of ways to relate to (lack of) ideology. They tell highly personal stories, full of the morbid hope, destructive tendencies and will to survive thrown up the dislocated state of our modern society. Five productions that all harbour a certain violence, but in which humour often brings relief. Utopia/Dystopia is a theatrical laboratory, in which hope and abhorrence take the spotlight in turns. And sometimes utopia and dystopia are very close together.
The performances in Frascati 1 and Frascati 2 can be seen from Thur 29 through Sat 31 Oct, in combination for a special total price of € 21.
1: SONGS is a performance composed as a concert - a fragile and violent musical event, an existential exercise for a singing body, a 'Liederkreis' based on tragic texts from the theatre repertory. In 1: SONGS the solo-performer Sanja Mitrovic submits her voice to the intense words of several tragic female figures such as Antigone, Medea, Gretchen from Goethe's Faust and Marie from Büchner's Woyzeck. The mute suffering of these fictional heroines repeatedly trespasses the body of this one female performer alone on stage as she sings and speaks and shouts their words. The contemporary electronic music composed by DJ/composer Gary Shepherd and the canon of literary text form the metaphorical basis for a subtle but loud scream against the instability and unpredictability of existence.
1: SONGS is a rough but also subtle performative examination of dramatic references from the past in order to distill potential moments of resonance here and now. How do we look at emotions, what moves us and what doesn't? Who is speaking here? A character? Or is the performer a kind of medium in which these classic theater figures reveal themselves just like ghosts? How does she survive among the violent multiplicity of embodiments?
As in her last work Lost is my quiet forever (2008) and Les Sylphides (2008), Nicole Beutler works in 1: SONGS with complex layering. There is tension between intense emotionality and cool calculation on the one hand, and space for reflection about this emotionality and the history of theater on the other. She is always in search for new forms based on historical references. Following baroque (Lost is my quiet forever) and classical ballet (Les Sylphides) in 1: SONGS Nicole Beutler examines exisiting theater texts.
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