Swiss artists Melanie Durrer and Alina Immoos are the protagonists of a performance that explores the reasons behind certain disappearances: men who vanish, captains who refuse to face shipwreck, and emotionally absent fathers who shirk their responsibilities and vanish without a word.
Extra Time Plus:
Get [the fuck] on board
Melanie Durrer / Alina Immoos
1h
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A smoke machine is scheduled to be used
Extra Time Plus:
Get [the fuck] on board
Melanie Durrer / Alina Immoos
1h
!
A smoke machine is scheduled to be used
A child waits on his father’s inflatable boat. The weather is beautiful; the air smells of sunscreen and worn-out plastic; the sun burns on the skin. But the wait lasts nearly two decades: a father who shirks responsibility, who puts things off, who disappears.
Almost twenty years ago, the Costa Concordia listed and sank due to a reckless maneuver by Captain Schettino. “The captain is the last to abandon ship,” says an unwritten law of the sea. A long tradition, a matter of honor—like so many things in a patriarchal society. Schettino, however, is the first to leave the ship, and he doesn’t come back.
Two ships, two captains, and the same pattern repeating itself. *Get [the fuck] on board* weaves through these images to tell the story of men who vanish just when the situation becomes critical: emotionally absent fathers, figures who slip away, responsibilities abandoned without a word.
On stage, the two performers set out to discover the reason behind these disappearances. They wonder what remains of these fathers within them, and whether it’s possible to break away from inherited patterns to imagine new forms of care. And, in the end, a simple and disarming question: when will someone finally come along to put sunscreen on our faces?