Marta Navaridas "MANIFESTATIONS"

Fri 02. & Sat 03.02., 19.30h

"Throughout the evening, 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 room that we are all in this together, all playing our parts." — Marta Navaridas

In preparing for "MANIFESTATIONS", the performers went through sight deprivation, smell overstimulation, fear-inducing night walks, virtual reality escape rooms, experimental eating sessions 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. 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.