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Stage performance

Based on a readily rehearsed torture scene (from the last production of Tatütheata, Sartre's "Morts sans sépulture"), Jasper Metzbaur, Dominique Baur and I experimented on combining abstract, philosophical text, which the undeniable corporeality of a stage situation can make appear ridiculous all too easily, precisely with very intense, serious corporeality: Pain. Cruelty. Scream.

Conversely the texts we chose, excerpts from Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations on the topics of pain, pain expression and knowledge of other people's pain, connect to the physical goings-on by virtue of their content. Accessories: A dictaphone, which through time reversal becomes a dictator, and confetti.

Performed on June 2, 2012 in the frame of "97m überm Meer", "platform for the independant theatre scene" in Mannheim, organised by zeitraumexit and TiG7.

In the press:

„Über einen Mangel von Sinnesreizen konnte sich die Theatergruppe um Carlos Franke indes kaum beklagen. Ihre ‚Intersubjektive Erkenntnis in Pastell‘ näherte sich Wittgenstein und der Beziehung von Worten zu Empfindungen mit einer denkbar anschaulichen Versuchsanordnung: Folternd suchten sie nach verbalen Ausdrucksformen für Schmerz – ein gelungenes Experiment.“

(Mannheimer Morgen, 4. Juni 2012)

„Die den Text illustrierenden Folterdarstellungen wirkten so realistisch, dass man versucht war, einzugreifen.“

(Die Rheinpfalz, Nr. 128, 4. Juni 2012)