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Push International Performing Arts Festival
Created by Ontroerend Goed (Belgium)
February 1–4\, 2023
Onto erend Goed’s palindromic take on the climate crisis uses structure as metap hor\, employing repetition and reversal to symbolize the need for a worldwi de undoing of our actions. The play starts off with backward speech from th e actors\, but fear not: this strangeness is temporary\, and as things beco me clearer the genius of the creation reveals itself.
Technically as well as formally ingenious\, Are we not drawn onward to new erA tu rns time\, movement and visuals on their heads–and\, like the best works of radical art\, it does so in the service of political meaning. It’s an arti stic intervention in a matter of the utmost importance\, and it uses tempor ality as a provocation. As we draw closer and closer to worldwide calamity\ , this work asks us to rethink human possibility.
Tickets are availab le through PuSh at the link below.
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