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4.48 PSYCHOSIS

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How do you build a life when your peers seem obsessed with orchestrating their downfall? Is this a world where you can live without lying about who you are? And where can you still find love when you see yourself turning to ash?

In 4.48 PSYCHOSIS, we meet someone trying to find coherence in a crumbling existence. Surrounded by a violent landscape of love and loss, they obsessively search for tenderness and clarity. Plagued by dysphoria, haunted by ghosts, and paralyzed by shame and anger, they mourn the past, the present, and especially the lost future.

Sarah Kane wrote the text at the end of the twentieth century, when she had lost faith in love and Western values began to collapse. It is a web of intimate fragments in which a person's life manically unravels and blossoms at the same time. 4.48 PSYCHOSIS is her last and most vulnerable text.

Erasmus Mackenna brings this infamous classic to the chaos of today, through their lens of social disruption, fear, disgust, and horror. Fueled by personal experiences, the history of genocide, and apocalyptic sounds of noise and drone music, they stage a physical and musical monologue.

Duration: 75 min. Please note: stroboscopic light and loud sound will be used during the performance.