Reset is an interdisciplinary reflection on music, theatre, image and space, presented in the form of a performance for one actor, eight musicians and video.
Reset is a piece about the attempt to join different disciplines. It is a piece about the impossibility of them ever being completely together. It is, in the end, a piece about the nature of performance, and the limits of artistic translation.
It combines the performance of three texts by Samuel Beckett (a poem, What would I do without this world?, a radio play, Cascando; and a theatre play, Ohio Impromptu) with an interdisciplinary reflection on them. From this combination the dramaturgy of the piece emerges: Reset is a play in which other plays are being performed; in which actors and musicians are performing a character, but also perform as themselves; where, in the end, reality becomes the enactment of fiction.
Reset is an event where light, sound, man and space become characters in a multimedia choreography of repetition and difference, closeness and absence, self and other.
Credits
- Text • Samuel Beckett
- Set Design • UR Architects: Nikolaas Vande Keere, Regis Verplaetse
- Video • Sandro Carlo Cortez Viana De Aguilar
- Actor • Jonathan Weightman
- Soprano • Joana Manuel
- Countertenor • Manuel Bràs Da Costa
- Bariton • Rui Baeta
- Composition • Vasco Mendonça
- Direction • Caroline Petrick