Susanne Kennedy
Markus Selg ANGELA (a strange loop)

[Theatre]

In this minute exploration of the everyday life of a woman who falls victim to a strange illness, Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg plunge us headlong into a world beyond that of appearances. We are confronted with the reverse side of an “after” world, in which it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish the real from the virtual.

From birth to death, and beyond, ANGELA (a strange loop) plunges us into the everyday life of a woman who, little by little, succumbs to a mysterious illness. Set in a sort of post-humanist television studio, a vast echo chamber which is also, perhaps, the reflection of the inner life of the main character, the director Susanne Kennedy and the artist Markus Selg set up breathtaking interplay between mirrors and distortion. In a disturbing way, the performers come close to a state of perfect, albeit artificial, state of reality. The play-back dialogues are slightly out-of-synch, as if the performers were trying to imitate real life, thereby blurring the frontier between true and false. Zooming in on the commonplace gestures and various streams of consciousness that form the strange loop of her everyday routine, the millions of tiny experiences that all human beings are made up of, the duo attempts to grasp exactly what it is about Angela that makes her Angela. And in doing so, what it means to simply be yourself in today’s world.

 

Please note the use of stroboscopic effects during the show.