MANIFESTATIONS

Marta Navaridas: MANIFESTATIONS

Thu 19. to Sat 21.12., 19.30h, Performance

"In MANIFESTATIONS, our team of performers become awfully transparent sentient beings who inform the audience at every moment about what they are feeling while observing and being observed, reminding every person in the theatre that we are all in this together, all playing our parts." – Marta Navaridas

In preparing for "MANIFESTATIONS", performers Alexandru Cosarca, Alex Deutinger, Beatrice Frey, Julia Franz Richter and Alex Zehetbauer went through sight deprivation, smell overstimulation, virtual reality experiences, escape rooms, ghost trains and rollercoaster rides. Their spontaneous verbal reactions were recorded and will be in-ear audio-prompted back to them so they can mimic their own reactions and activate them on stage for the audience. Marta Navaridas playfully blends the authenticity of lived experiences with the make-believe situation of the theatre, looking for "fake realities in real fakeness". "MANIFESTATIONS" both questions the structure and conventions of the black box theatre and pays a performative homage to the endless fictional scenarios that can be activated through the imagination.

Artist Talk following the performance on Fri 20.12., comedian Denice Bourbon in conversation with Marta Navaridas and participants in the production. In English.