Day: May 17, 1999

After being immersed in Chinese Traditional Theatre, a boy’s childhood is far more than ordinary. The award-winning short film was completed by ‘Remote on-line directing’ during the 2020 lockdown.

Polish seminal Romantic verse drama “Balladyna” by Juliusz Słowacki is a starting point for creating an innovative story about how technology intertwines with loneliness, fear, obsession, love, and murder in the times of global isolation. EIGHT DAYS ONLY! MAY 24-31

An opera commissioned during the U.K.’s lockdown and designed with social distancing shaping the actors’ performances. The story begins with people gathering for a feast but ends with them killed by the plague.

Through the delicate use of Zoom, Google Earth, and other digital tools, the author invites the viewer to discover a geographical and personal topography of Santiago. Embracing aspects of memory, territory, and emotion, “Reminiscencia” shows the power of theatre to bring people closer at a time where distance and digital presence no longer seem that far apart. SEVEN DAYS ONLY! MAY 24-30

“Viño” is a Ukrainian physical theatre production that visualizes our ‘almighty’ bodies getting wasted and lost between the realistic and the imagined. Think of a slightly drunken moment during lockdown and you might get close to the spirit of this imaginative piece. THREE DAYS ONLY! MAY 27-29

In this visceral and poetic piece, writer and director Leanetse Seekoe introduces us to Ruth, her family’s history, and the gendered expectations that are imprinted both in her mother and in herself. Ruth guides us through a pathway in which tradition, opposition, and freedom are key for defining the character’s future.

Loneliness and disconnection from the natural world are key themes in this poetic piece by Obie-award winning playwright Caridad Svich. Staged with deft minimalism by Amelia Rico, the play re-imagines the Biblical Magdalene as a young sex-worker facing loss, grief, and a desire to transcend reality.

Two strangers wake up in the same house. They only remember fragments of the night before. They need each other to put together this great puzzle of feelings and memories. This experience was conceived during the Covid-19 quarantine, in São Paulo, Brazil, while the artists were isolated in their homes. Adaptation of the theatrical text, “The Story of Panda Bears (told by a saxophonist who has a girlfriend in Frankfurt).”

The day is at its end. The silence slowly covers all of Fryslân, a Dutch province. A nurse, a seeking woman, a journalist: all going somewhere at night. What are they doing out so late? PERFORMED LIVE ON MAY 28 and 29!