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END OF BOOKS / BASTARD OF ALLEGORY (2020-2018)
The two plays, End of Books and Bastard of Allegory, both deal with aesthetic demands in the current age of screens, where attention span, reading comprehension and the overall time spent with a text, a film, an artwork, etc, has rapidly diminished. The theatre, a site where full attention from the audience can still be expected, creates apparent frictions with a visual culture that relies on instant gratification. EoB and BoA both use the immanent tension between the theatre, today understood as a slow art form, and the age of screens, rapid and totally memefied, as its modus operandi to create absurd, satirical settings where aesthetic expectations clinch against each other and gives way for stories about the way we (do not) listen, (do not) look and (do not) feel.
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