Let us imagine a world where nothing is as it seems – and where we often prefer things to be what they are not. Is it utter confusion, or ultimately a new reality? Everything is constantly transforming, everything resembles something else, everything is in disguise. This world looks so much like our own that the difference is measured only by the distance between a person and their reflection in the mirror, or by the distance between the audience and the stage.
The protagonist of the play is Love, which transforms you into an Other – and that “Other” becomes at once both the subject and the object of desire. Through this “Other”, does each person define themselves, and does love become a mirror of the Self? In this universe, everything is revealed through the song of the lover – and perhaps, in the end, that is the only truth.
On stage, 15 young actors continually transform themselves, changing masks and roles like Shakespeare’s “fool”, Feste. They orchestrate a composition in which the costume is the gaze, the lines are the masks, and behaviour itself becomes the role.
They revel in truth itself, singing in a bittersweet tone; they grow intoxicated with celebration and address the audience with melodic laughter: “What you will.”
The performance is a devised work based on the romantic comedy Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare, in a translation by Nikos Hatzopoulos.
CO-PRODUCTION
Athens Conservatoire
Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
