People Who Need People
“People who need people are the luckiest people in the world”
The image of a lonely person on a chair, in an empty, cold, white room. Bones resting on bones, scaffolding, one inside the other. This image multiplied, six entities, six bodies, instrinsically scattered. What connects all these bones? What lies within the hollow, solitary, liminal spaces, the void? The idea of loneliness as an organ that makes space for itself in our bodies, working relentlessly, making us search for our very selves, alone and towards connections with other selves. The question of belonging not only within ourselves but also with others. A gentle exploration of possibilities of desire for the self or others, of contact, connection and intimacy. All the need, all the desire that we usually hide in our selves, released.
How one can remain lonely within a group, withdrawing into oneself at any time, and yet remain there for others too. The possibility of the togetherness of lonely entities struggling to find themselves and to hold on to something/one.
Cast:
Greta Dato, Kenedy Kallas, Kiran Bonnema, Marcos Novais, Mei-Yun Lu, Rita Winder, Yamil Ortiz.
Music:
Jack Jones, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand.
Dramaturgy:
Johannes Schropp
© Tatsuki Takada