COUNTDOWN
Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah!
In Countdown 4 performers challenge each other to confess their deepest secrets.
Who has the biggest secrets and who has the most stamina? Time and again, they confess in order to shake off the past, to ask us for forgiveness, to make a new start. Or that’s how it appears. Countdown is an intimate performance between hope and shame, reality and fiction.
In reality shows and interviews, political discussions and daily conversation confessions fly in abundance. But what can be done with them? Is this profusion of crimes and transgressions ever really digested or understood? Is a confession the ultimate form of self-exposure or just another mask that we can hide behind?
Concept & Performance: Christina Flick, Melih Gençboyaci, Kimmy Ligtvoet and Ilyas Odman
Music Design: Ata Güner
Light Design: Guido Langendok
Dramaturgy: Loes van der Pligt
Production: PERFORM2012, Productiehuis Rotterdam
Text contribution: Eylül Fidan Akıncı, Magne van den Berg, Sanne Vanderbruggen, Işıl Eğrikavuk, Rob de Graaf, Yeşim Özsoy Gülan,Marjolein van Heemstra, Eva van Manen, Nazmiye Oral,Yiğit Sertdemir, Jibbe Willems, Fırat Yücel
Countdown was developed through a collective creation process by artists from Turkey and the Netherlands. It will be presented in Rotterdamse Schouwburg (Rotterdam), Frascati (Amsterdam), Stadsschouwburg Utrecht (Utrecht) and Istanbul in November- December 2012.
This project is supported by the Government of the Republic of Turkey, Theater Instituut Nederland (TIN) and Performing Arts Fund NL within the framework of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Netherlands.
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