Encounters. Oslo – The Feminist Secret Society of Helsinki (FI)
Archive
This is a former Showbox event.
Where
Black Box theater
When
Tuesday, November 25
at 10:30 - 11:45
How do you talk to a stranger when you can't see their face? Can a direct, faceless conversation be a path to more intimate and authentic communication? What does it mean to represent someone else? Is representation the same as playing a role? These are questions that are explored in Encounters. Oslo .
Encounters. Oslo is both a performance and a real, first meeting between two teenagers. On stage, two performers are connected to two hidden teenagers. They are invisible both to the audience and to each other, and via microphones and earphones, the performers repeat everything the hidden teenager they represent says, word for word. The performers lend their voices and bodies to create an unscripted, authentic conversation. In Oslo, we meet Nosizwe Baqwa and Cecilie Solberg on stage. The teenagers remain anonymous.
This is how Encounters. Oslo allows young people to speak freely and unfiltered, while at the same time conveying everything through a different body and voice.
What kinds of power relations then emerge – between the audience, the performers, and the anonymous participants?
Language: Norwegian
Target group: from 15 years old
Duration: 75 minutes
Venue: Black Box Theatre, main stage
The Feminist Secret Society of Helsinki (FSSH) is an artist collective that creates performances and other interventions in varying constellations – both among its members and with guest artists: actors Iida-Maria Heinonen, Saara Kotkaniemi and Kreeta Salminen; playwrights and theatre makers Amanda Palo and Olga Palo; and interdisciplinary artist and researcher Katri Naukkarinen. FSSH has produced performances, workshops, publications and more.
Encounters premiered at Madhouse Helsinki in 2018. Since then, the performance has been shown at Helsinki City Theatre's Stage for Contemporary Performance , the Sanoin Festival in Helsinki, and the Sirenos Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, among others.
Archive
This is a former Showbox event.
Where
Black Box theater
Marstrandgata 8
When
Tuesday, November 25
at 10:30 - 11:45