Hello everyone!
How are you doing? I hope this week is very pleasent for you. The sun is out at the moment and it’s nice to see every getting out an about.
Nothing much to add to this weeks etude so please do enjoy this weeks selections.
Feast by Christina Tang, Anna Jastrzembski, & Carsen Joenk
from $15
Wesneday 23rd March until 7th April
Today’s the day. You’re really doing it. You’re going to leave this place behind for good and you won’t look back. Not once, not ever. But before you go, here’s one last chance to reminisce, eat some breakfast, take a final dip in the river, and leave your mark on a place you never liked very much to begin with.
FEAST. is a hypertext fiction game that takes you on an interactive journey through a strange, near-future landscape as you search for your best friend WHIP. By casting the audience as both player and reader, FEAST. seeks to capture the immediacy of a live theater experience through a sense of autonomous gameplay.
Existing in the world of early-internet aesthetics, the tender days of LiveJournal, chat logs, and instant messenger, the format of FEAST. recalls a sense of nostalgia from our recent digital past.
Note : You may remember Christina Tang and Anna Jastrzembski as the team behind Traffic which James Varney reviewed a few months back. Do have a read of his review to get an idea of their work and then check out Feast!
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading by Hilmi Jaidin
from £12
Thursday 24th until Saturday 26th March
"To understand my family, you have to understand my country - and I've never really understood either."
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading is a new musical about growing up different in a country that censors your every word. Filtered through the lens of '90s MTV Asia, it tells the story of Riz, a queer migrant and his relationship to his family and country, both of which he is finding impossible to decipher.
An all-Asian cast tell this deeply personal but startlingly relatable story about family, identity and censorship.
NOORRRRAAAAAAAA by Henrik Ibsen
Friday 25th March
from €3
Henrik Ibsen's drama A Doll's House, written in 1879, tells the story of Nora, who finds the courage to confront her fears. She frees herself from a coexistence in which she was forced to maintain the glittering facade of a dependent doll and sets out into an uncertain future.Director Leonie Böhm uses the reactivation of classical texts to work on radically open interactions - courageous, present and vulnerable. In her Gorki debut, she dares to break out of the dollhouse with Julia Riedler and Svenja Liesau, passionately dismembering Ibsen's classic of emancipation and stepping on shaky ground. Courage and fear are two sides of the same coin.
free
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Electra’s father is murdered by her mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, leaving Electra hysterical with grief – and with an obsessional desire for revenge, as she is made a prisoner in her mother’s house. Her only hope is that her exiled brother Orestes will return and make her dark fantasy of murdering her mother come true.
In Suzuki’s staging of the Greek myth, the characters’ interior world is deepened by setting the tragedy in a psychiatric hospital, one in which all of humanity is irredeemably trapped.
One of the most enduringly influential directors and theatre makers alive, Tadashi Suzuki is also renowned for his writings and the Suzuki Acting Method. Here he combines Euripides’s terrifying perception of human frailty with the operatic force of Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss’s librettist.
QUEER TONGUES by Once We Were Islands
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available now
In QUEER TONGUES, ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS asks what it would mean for Queer people to have a language of our own. We work with Damiá, a constructed Queer language, as our lens. In our first full-length documentary film, we explore the ideas and potentials of new forms of Queer belonging and what it means to speak with brand new words.
Thank you, as ever, for taking the time to read through etude and explore whats on this week.
Josh x