gravity and graves
2021

 It’s all quite a lot like Sisyphos. She-syphos. 

Theatre is praised for it’s liveness, its ephemerality rendering it a quality of exclusivity. In gravity and graves, this ephemerality is instead perceived as all kinds of trouble. Because, when things begin they tend to end. By starting the theatre event, it’s inevitably moving towards its finalisation. Birth is, after all, the route to death. From this chronophobic point of view we start.

gravity and graves is a polyphonic solo that underlines the stage and the body as sites of transience and finitude. This is embodied in a feminine being, a she on the verge of mania, nostalgic about her babyhood and in constant combat mode. She knows: time is not for girls. Her body: a container of bad news, a never ending gothic story. If she only knew how to move through time without passing with it!

gravity and graves won’t last. All we are sure of is that by the end of the show time will have passed.

Concept, directing, acting: Johanna Malm
Concept, text, dramaturgy: Ruby Nilsson
Light & sound design, music: Christoffer Lloyd
Music: Mattias Malm
Produced by Interrim AB |
Supported by Kulturrådet, Region Skåne and Göteborg Stad

gravity and graves premiered at Inkonst in August 2021 and has also been shown at Folkteatern Göteborg.

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