A hypnotic ritual exploring the ancient impulse to desire evil.
Play
Matías Umpierrez
© Dominik Valvo
national premiere
ES/it/eng
1 hour 40 minutes
!
In Spanish, with Italian and English subtitles
contains strobe lights
Play
Matías Umpierrez
© Dominik Valvo
national premiere
ES/it/eng
1 hour 40 minutes
!
In Spanish, with Italian and English subtitles
contains strobe lights
The “PLAY” button has been integrated—without translation—into electronic devices around the world. To trigger speech, to play, to interpret, to act, to simulate. A tool of a dominant system. PLAY is a theatrical exploration of hate speech, the ways power is exercised, and the hell and heaven of consciousness. It is a performance-lecture. An installation. The dismantling of our theatrical society. A circus of abuses. An atlas of resentment. An archive of hatred torn to pieces, forced to stage what it cannot systematize: flaws, residues, silences, dissents that refuse to integrate. Matías Umpierrez seeks to make visible the labyrinth of time and the impossibility of cataloging or understanding the subjectivity of the world, thereby calling into question stability and power.