MEDIATHEK

“the performers appear as one organism with two different personalities. Bright neon light floods both stage and audience areas. Almost nothing seems to happen, but what happens is in great detail and absolute precision. In the performers’ faces, posture and breathing a melodrama takes place where all narrative elements have been sifted out. The experiment reads: can one bear such lack ofnarrative? Can one bear reading emotions without cause and effect? The public is repeatedly questioning its expectations. In the lit audience, the faces of the viewers start reflecting the performers faces and the audience becomes a distorting mirror of the stage… ”

A PERFORMANCE BY: Antonia Baehr

WITH: William Wheeler and Antonia Baehr

PRODUCTION: Wheeler/Baehr and Podewil Berlin

Premiere: 2001

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