Hello everyone!
How are you doing today? There’s lots of great theatre this week. I think this could be the best line up of shows etude has put together. A realy good mixture of archival, live streamed and more interactive digital works.
I’ve had to write out this weeks content warnings as a lot of the shows don’t have content warning on their websites. These content warnings are based on either assumption or from seeing the shows in the past. I’d rather you be safe than sorry. This is the first time I’ve presented content warnings like this so any feedback would be helpful!
I hope you enjoy the shows!
La Tragedia Endogonidia by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
Streaming from 24th January
New epsiodes every night until 4th Febuary
Free
CONTENT WARNINGS - a lot of blood, police brutality, loud noises. These shows are INTENSE so be careful.
The first major adventure in theatre of the 21st Century, "Tragedia Endogonidia" is eleven episodes that are performed in theatres in ten European cities. At each stage, the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio asks the same question in a different form: how to re-invent and represent a contemporary tragedy, here and now ? Greek tragedy, the symbol of the democratic Greek city in the fifth century BCE which was united in the celebration of its myths and its history, no longer corresponds to the same forms in compartmentalized, fragmented societies where the individuals who make up those societies feel isolated, vulnerable and under threat.
26th - 28th January
£5/10
CONTENT WARNINGS - shows about work can often talk about explotation
Job is an online game and performance in which you give instructions to an avatar from home. Like a story full of puzzles to be solved, the performance unfolds in the storage and technical areas of the Kaaitheater. Job plays with the possibility that an avatar "would rather not follow" your orders, and at the same time wants to touch on the difficulties that artists encounter with the ever-increasing demand for production and efficiency.
28th - 30th January
Free
CONTENT WARNINGS - discussions around grief and loss
Anja (10) persuades her family to make a film about the mysterious disappearance of her grandmother Friederike. The search begins with Friederike’s last note: „Let there be a man, / let there be the woman, / let there be the longing for unconditional love and the desire for the child who has the mission to complete this love. / Let there be a house / Let there be truth.” During the shooting, the family encounters unspoken secrets, unresolved conflicts, restrictive models of family and motherhood, questions of co-parenting and general problems with patriarchy.
Return to Palenstine by The Freedom Theatre
25th January
Free
CONTENT WARNINGS - police and state brutality
Jad, a Palestinian born in America, decides to go to Palestine for the first time in his life. Wanting to know more about his people and identity, he finds out that reality is very different from what he has seen in the news.
Fascinated By Isabel Lewis & Loraine James
January 25th
Free
A new work by Isabel Lewis and Loraine James titled »Fascinated By« kicks-off CTM's trans/local performance series through a choreographed dreamy landscape that Isabel (Berlin) and Loraine (London) inhabit, manipulate, and move through. Sharing an artistic interest in unpredictability and risk in performance, and mediating presence and distance through theatrical elements such as lighting, booms, and video monitors, the artists shape an almost filmic work, composed of three single-take vignettes.
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