Edicius

– Performance, Friday 13th November 2009

Many experts advise that presenting stories of Suicide to a live audience is fraught with dangers. Their arguments cite the potential for copy cat behaviours, and sensationalising the tragedy that loved ones face when someone close to them becomes a victim. Or, risks trivialising deeply profound phenomena.

Well, all this may well be true; however what is theatre without danger? What is theatre that doesn’t push the envelope of societies’ norms and expectations? What is theatre that doesn’t provoke, disturb and challenge?

Answer: Theatre that I cant be bothered with> Theatre that is safe and easy for audiences > Deadly Theatre (Peter Brook’s Meaning).

Edicius doesn’t pretend to be anything other than an expression of collected stories, images, impressions, questions and reactions to the horror of suicide.

This is expressionist performance, if one needs a label. The cast have assembled a sequence of fragments, images, impressions, (some imagined some factual) thrown on a mask here and there, offered opportunities for audiences to interact, written some poems, added some music, put it all in a big pot and stirred vigorously . 

DON’T ENJOY; that just wouldn’t be right. Rather; absorb, think, question, react, weep… this is stuff which happens!