 | ONCE THERE WAS... ONCE THERE WAS NOT... THE PLAGUE, an experimental play inspired by Anatolian limerick patterns, presents a poetic journey that focuses on the physical and verbal effects of rationality on human beings whose minds and bodies are forced to be separated.A watchman, after guarding the quarantined houses of the plague victims during the Black Death, comes from the dusty path of
history to tell us about the plague of reason... Can the things this messenger tells re-invigorate our gradually
petrifying
bodies that are enslaved by callused 'why' questions and are imprisoned
in unresponsive minds? Will the verbs get
away from echoing in the abyss and re-activate their own subjects? |
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September 16th-25th
Written and Directed by Fulya Peker
Performances by E. James Ford, Steven Carlino, Cesare Papetti, Timothy R. Pickerill, Benjamin Stuber
"After the plague reached its peak it was supposed to fade away... As it did during the years of war, as did all the other plagues of our great history... But the wind grew into a tornado... Whirling faster and faster... The expected end did not arrive, the end has never arrived and it never will... The devouring plague was incubating within the skulls and it awakened right when we were asleep... THE PLAGUE OF REASON... Whys? Hows? Whats? Scratching our barks... Our barks were lacking earth... We got drier and drier... With an everlasting itch of 'knowing'... We got drier and drier..."
SEPTEMBER 16TH-25TH, 2011. THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY. Photos by Vikram Dogra .
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