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A performance inspired by Plasma’s visit to Baltic Circle festival in 2003 and the Finnish bar culture during the darkest November.
An evening in the gravitational field of an endless bar. If the measurement of time is reduced to a specific motion and changes of being, then the measure of time is only defined for the position of that specific clock.
We find ourselves in regions on the other side of consciousness, on the continent between last orders and locking up; that moment when, having had a glass or more, we sit quietly in the corner of the bar and watch the room bend, and wait for the taxi or the next drink.
Delirium is a theatrical machine somewhere between digital dataflow and tangible melancholy. People at a bar: The endless night shifts perception, slowly dissolving the borders between the fantasized, the remembered and the experienced.
The Swiss drama group Plasma - founded in 2000 - sees itself as a laboratory for searching for theatrical forms of expression. It explores the borders between theatre, music and fine arts, and in this manner creates performances with a unique signature: densely layered and yet clear and reduced in its means.
From the start, the focus of group's work has been on the attempt to free language from its sole function of conveying meaning, and to extend the comprehension thereof as an acoustic and musical phenomenon. The pieces of director and author Lukas Bangerter are never linear treatises. They can be read either as living installations or as scenic concerts, attempting to transform form into content, and content into form.
CONTACT INFORMATION
www.plasmaplasma.ch
SUPPORTED BY
Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Alfred Kordelinin säätiö
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