O tells of an encounter, which is redefined each time according to its interpreters.
The two people on stage are divided by a soccer ball. They are two men, the teacher and the pupil, the adult and the young man, the expert and the shrewd. They are two strangers, in love. Together they discover each other in the other’s eyes. They go through desire, prohibition, mistake and what is politically incorrect. They observe and study each other, developing a relationship that grows through play, eroticism and aggression.
The aggressive and virile movements are transformed into a danced dialogue between the bodies. They begin to discover the other in a progressive abandonment that redefines the balance and leads to a frantic dance in which the poor ego becomes the cause of the loss of the relationship control, which ends up, in front of the audience, in a slow-dancing that consumes, extinguishes and strip them.
O is the representation of a love which struggle to discover the mutual identities on a football field, due to the tacit agreement that football is a heterosexual’s sport only. A taboo that arises from the widespread mentality that imposes a standardized attitude on those who are part of a locker-room. They have to show their heterosexuality, with no alternatives. Those who do not are sidelined.
O is a meeting, any meeting, between any two people.
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- TeatroeCritica.net – May 13th, 2022