United Solo Theatre Festival
Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 07:00pm
United Solo Theatre Festival
Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street
The 17th Annual United Solo Theatre Festival
Featuring shows from across the country and around the globe, the world's largest solo theatre festival is entering our seventeenth season!
Schedule of Events
7pm: OBLIVION - Starring Christina Kyriazidi
[OBLIVION] is a physical theatre performance based on the poetry collection [lambda theta] by Christina Kyriazidi. It is the second part of the trilogy [RED / OF OBLIVION / BODY], a collaboration between the Greek poet and performer Christina Kyriazidi, and the Icelandic composer Smári Gudmundson. The trilogy is about WOMANHOOD, and explores all aspects and problematics of female identity - archetypal, ontological, sexual, political and social.
[OBLIVION] deals with the pandemic of oblivion and how it affects contemporary women. Through fragments of stories of different women at the very moment when memory abandons them, we witness the chronicle of a silent lament. However, it is a noisy silence, full of memory leaps, from which women's voices emerge: victims of femicide, domestic and state violence, refugee experiences, and abandonment. A series of women meet briefly and fragmentarily just before sinking into oblivion.
Poetry / Creation / Performance: Christina Kyriazidi
Music: Smári Gudmundsson
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvG37fUWFUo&t=2s
Christina Kyriazidi is a Greek theatre-maker, based between Athens and Berlin. Her solo work, based on poetry, physical and vocal research, has toured in Greece, Germany, France, Italy, Argentina and Brazil.