The adaption of the original performance experiments with the juxtaposition of traditional theatre with fragments from aria, lieder and choral works to project concepts of real and imagined fear perceived in today's society. The performance, staged in English with two actors and one mezzo-soprano, intertwines fragments and collages of live musical works by Schumann, Lang, Purcell, Wolf, and Pärt with personal stories, analytical context and historic speeches into a performative piece combining song and act. The performance sheds light on the origins of fear and the social, political and cultural motivation for its amplification and manipulation.
Building on the original performance presented at the Cyprus Premiere at RIALTO Theatre, the additional Nicosia experimental performance will launch the larger «Fear Industry Project» (2015-16), which extends to 6 participating European Cities/Theaters (Amsterdam, Madrid, Zurich, Athens, Stuttgart, London), who will collaborate with the Cyprus team to expand on the theme of fear, incorporating additional performers in their native language.
«The atmospherically dense performance places us in a vigil state of recognising a culture
of fear everywhere in all its glorification and with all its personal, political and cultural dimension…
Wieland manages to move this performance in the category of art as a vehicle of reawakening»
– Christina Georghiou, ANEF, Vol. 52
The performance distills historic speeches, personal stories, analytical context, and YouTube-confessions into a pervasive and penetrating cocktail of intimate accounts and public proclamations. We now fear anything from killer bees to drug abusers, wild fires to paedophiles, deadly diseases, online spying, the avian flu, old age, mad cows, immigrants, anthrax, wrinkles, environmental collapse, and – let us not forget – terrorists.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”
– Marianne Williamson
Participants/Artists: Achim Wieland (Direction/Idea), Marios Ioannou, Elena Kallinikou (Performers),
Lia Haraki (Artistic Advisor), Marianna Pieretti (Mezzo Soprano), Dramaturgy/Script: With the Performers.
Linos Panagi (Script Advisor), Sossee Eskidjian (Set,Costume), Giorgos Lazoglou (Light Design),
Marios Neophytou (Hair), Panos Bartzis (Sound/Musical Advisor).
Place: Satyriko Theatre, Experimental Stage (2nd Floor)
Vladimiros Kafkarides Street 11-15, Aglantzia, Nicosia,
Date: Monday, Feb 2nd (Premiere) and Thursday, Feb 5th, 2015
Time: 20:00
For Tickets and Reservations: +357.99655796
For more information about the European Project: Achim Wieland [email protected]
The performance is supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture, the German Embassy Nicosia as well as Columbia Shipmanagement and the University of Nicosia.
Video Trailer: https://youtu.be/-e4kARSMySU
