O Começo Perdido
In the near future, a fugitive arrives on an uninhabited island with an unusual, almost paradoxical geography. Little is known about the island: its structures are abandoned and in disrepair, it bears the marks of a hasty evacuation, and recent visitors are rumored to have suffered the affects of a strange and acute form of an unknown disease. The fugitive encounters several others who seem to share the island: an inventor, a scientist, a woman in white, and a group of jovial strangers at a party who appear to be under a sort of curse. His memory, rapidly decaying, is played back to him in fragments with the use of a tape recorder. This recorder has captured the very essence of him and the inventor says that it will play until the end of time. This makes clear what the fugitive has found: a private universe, repeating itself endlessly.
Strangers explores the themes of connection, choice and mortality as they relate to modern threats of climate change, surveillance, the spread of disease and the fears of a rapidly shifting world. Warnings from the past become a guide for how to approach the conflict of the immediate future – and patterns through time are revealed.
Drawing on the work of Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Albert Einstein, Strangers explores the nature of time and memory, the dividing line between magic and science, and the consequences of invention.
Sloan Bradford, Isaac Bush
Metteur en scène Anne Simon
Décors Agnes Hamvas
Costumes Agnes Hamvas
Musique Anthime Miller
Lumière Katy Atwell
Avec Isaac Bush
Sloan Bradford
Elisabet Johannesdottir
Arash Marandi
Stefani Mavrokordatou
Une coproduction
Théâtre National du Luxembourg
Circle Theater New York
Avec le soutien de FOCUNA
US Embassy in Luxemburg
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