Mette Edvardsen & Matteo Fargion - Penelope Sleeps (new work)
10 May 2019 - 14 May 2019
This project is supported by the Friends of Kunstenfestivaldesarts:
www.kfda.be/friends
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Kaaitheater - Sainctelette Square Sainctelette 19 1000
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With her latest creation, Penelope Sleeps, Mette Edvardsen once more sets out to explore
the vast field of literature. The Norwegian theatre-maker was at the festival in 2013 and
2017 with Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, a unique project revolving around the act of embodying and rewriting books. Together with composer and performer Matteo Fargion, she has now created an essayistic opera to deconstruct the mythological figure of Penelope. We are familiar with Penelope as the woman who waited for years for her husband, Odysseus. She waits but does not await, however, and neither is her repose synonymous with resignation. In fact, her seeming passiveness conceals a tremendous force. Through this perspective, Penelope Sleeps analyses woman’s relation to the other and to the world. Voice (spoken, sung) and music (harmonium, synthesizer) create an intimate, minimalist dreamworld which you are invited to stretch out in.
Credits
Text: Mette Edvardsen
Music: Matteo Fargion
Performed by: Mette Edvardsen, Matteo Fargion, Angela Hicks
Light & technical support: Bruno Pocheron
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater
Production: Mette Edvardsen / Athome, Manyone
Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater (Brussels), BUDA (Kortrijk), Black Box teater (Oslo), Teaterhuset Avant Garden (Trondheim), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), apap-Performing Europe 2020, a project co-founded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
Supported by: Norsk Kulturr.d, Norwegian Artistic Research Program – Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Friends
Thanks to: Embassy of Norway in Brussels
the vast field of literature. The Norwegian theatre-maker was at the festival in 2013 and
2017 with Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, a unique project revolving around the act of embodying and rewriting books. Together with composer and performer Matteo Fargion, she has now created an essayistic opera to deconstruct the mythological figure of Penelope. We are familiar with Penelope as the woman who waited for years for her husband, Odysseus. She waits but does not await, however, and neither is her repose synonymous with resignation. In fact, her seeming passiveness conceals a tremendous force. Through this perspective, Penelope Sleeps analyses woman’s relation to the other and to the world. Voice (spoken, sung) and music (harmonium, synthesizer) create an intimate, minimalist dreamworld which you are invited to stretch out in.
Credits
Text: Mette Edvardsen
Music: Matteo Fargion
Performed by: Mette Edvardsen, Matteo Fargion, Angela Hicks
Light & technical support: Bruno Pocheron
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater
Production: Mette Edvardsen / Athome, Manyone
Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater (Brussels), BUDA (Kortrijk), Black Box teater (Oslo), Teaterhuset Avant Garden (Trondheim), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), apap-Performing Europe 2020, a project co-founded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
Supported by: Norsk Kulturr.d, Norwegian Artistic Research Program – Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Friends
Thanks to: Embassy of Norway in Brussels
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