This stage adaptation of Virginie Jortay’s novel consists of thirty brief tableaux, instant sequences that follow one another in quick succession – the same way you turn the pages of an absorbing book.
In a regular to and fro between breaking and articulating, five performers tune up and exchange with one another, entwining an imperfect game with constantly redistributed rules.
This hyper-physical performance combines twelve performers on stage pushed to extremes. A hypnotic performance that is performed over and over at an insistent, frenetic pace. The concert hall becomes a theatre, an arena, a gymnasium.
In this ‘final’ play, we explore alternative paths together, starting from a positive observation: if there’s no solution, it’s because there’s no problem.
Sukhishvili, the famous Georgian National Ballet, is an ensemble of some fifty artists, dancers and musicians that has been preserving the customs of authentic Georgian dance for seventy-five years.
Milo Rau exposes the contradictions of our time, highlighting the coexistence of luxury and torment, the obsession with normalization and the taste for petty bourgeois scandal.
