EVER MORE SEDUCTION AND ANXIETY

Seduction and anxiety – in general these two are the main conditions inhabited by the contemporary man. On one side in him the much more intensified consumer’s aspirations are working, bred by the ever more- fantastic temptations of the market; on the other side – the feeling for anxiety strengthens ever more inevitably: the feeling of unsteadiness and insecurity, the on and on shortening of time which induces one to make ever faster and gambling decisions, and finally the vague wish for a life somewhat different; in one word – the anxiety of all that which fails distinct description. And so theatre turns into ever more fervent market for selling products for the spirit and the soul, in which each offer searches to find its most seductive for the moment appearance, under which at the same time the intensifying anxiety of life keeps breathing faster.

With the five performances I have chosen, I was looking for some of the main questions, which could be put to this situation of seduction and anxiety, as well as for their different formal theatrical methods: the moderate combination of drama and comedy, of classics, modernity and contemporaneity, and last but not least – the high professionalism, with which they have been made. I believe that these performances will be valued fittingly by the theatre specialists and by the larger festival audience.

Romeo Popiliev, selectionis