Angela (a strange loop)

Angela (a strange loop)
07 Jun '23 to 09 Jun '23
Susanne Kennedy, Markus Selg

For Angela (a strange loop), director Susanne Kennedy and multimedia artist Markus Selg take the life of a woman, in order to portray individual life as a journey and to ask what it means to be human today.

Festival Holland Festival

Run time 90 minutes, no intermission
Genre Theatre
Language English
Surtitles Dutch

Angela (a strange loop)

‘What makes Angela, Angela?’ German director Susanne Kennedy and multimedia artist Markus Selg want to know. To find out, they seize on Angela’s existence as dramatic material, following her from birth to death and beyond. Their journey takes her through everyday situations: illness and recovery, waking and sleeping, being born and giving birth, aging and death. The hypothesis is that Angela is made up of millions of experiences and that some of them reflect what others have told her. Angela might ultimately be just a strange loop, an endless sequence.

-|-Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg explore the new balance of power that exists between bodies, technical objects and machines. With a post-humanist aesthetic and multimedia approach, they put the distortion of the actors resulting from the mask play, lip-synced dialogues and doppelgängers of Germanic folklore to good use. Angela (a strange loop) takes us on a deep dive into the question of identity and consciousness. Angela guides us to one of the fundamental questions of existence: what is the nature of reality and what does ‘I’ represent?

Credits

concept Susanne Kennedy, Markus Selg
direction Susanne Kennedy, Markus Selg
general manager Something Great
distribution Something Great
production Ultraworld Productions
coproduction Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Theater der Welt, Festival d’Avignon, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin
text Susanne Kennedy, Markus Selg
set design Markus Selg
performers Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, Kate Strong, Tarren Johnson, Dominic Santia
dramaturgy Helena Eckert
-|-light design Rainer Casper
sound design Richard Alexander
editing Richard Alexander
soundtrack Diamanda Dramm, Richard Alexander
live music DiamandaDramm

video design Rodrik Biersteker, Markus Selg
costume design Andra Dumitrascu 
associate direction Friederike Kötter
artistic production manager Philip Decker
technical production manager Sven Nichterlein
international distribution Rui Silveira
management Something Great
tour manager Niki Fischer

This performance is made possible by Ammodo, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Holland Festival

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