Non-Tutta

What is a performer if not a histrion, a person who exposes herself to everyone's view and asks that extreme attention be paid to her slightest acts and gestures? In Non-Tutta, Silvia Albarella and Anne Tismer probe the histrionic personality (the modern form of hysteria) to reveal its theatrical, pathological and social character. In the centre of a white cube, Anne Tismer attempts to initiate an exchange with the public and her stage partner, the musician Tom Tiest. Very quickly, the performer wears herself out in complicated and zany communication strategies that have a totally dramatic expressiveness. Invaded by a universe that is sometimes troubling, sometimes marvellous and reassuring, like the apparitions scrolling on the walls or the coloured wool monster in which she is wrapped, she seems overwhelmed by an exhausting internal agitation. By turns comical and moving, she says that she aspires to calm, to a state of torpor outside reality and seems, at the same time, panicked at the idea of accessing it. On stage, songs cadence her confessions that sometimes change into a nightmare: childhood memories, seemingly trite, that suggest a trauma. More than an individual pathology, it is a disease of Western societies, dependent on appearance and speed, eaten at by stress and affective dependence, haunted by efficiency and being brought in line, which is examined in this portrait of a being on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A performance marked by a fertile imagination, during which the spectators jubilantly delve into their own mental and psychic universe. MS

conception and property Silvia Albarella
text and objects Anne Tismer
music Tom Tiest
dramaturgy and artistic collaboration Julie Pfleiderer
video Sirko Knüpfer
lighting Arnaud Poumarat
artistic collaboration Bart van den Eynde

with Tom Tiest, Anne Tismer

coproduction Sophiensaele Berlin, Forum Freies Theater Düsseldorf
with the support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Istituto di cultura italiana and Flämische Repräsentanz Berlin