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THREE DAYS OF DISAPPEARING

Lisa comes back home from a rave and finds a dead woman in her apartment. Who is this person and how did she end up in her living room? Three Days Of Disappearing is a meditative, urban, fairytale-esque exploration of emotional unfulfillment and continuous yearning. The characters question themselves and challenge the audience to ponder three questions: What is the point of belonging, how can one grow to accept change, and when does one stop searching?

There are three characters on stage. Each of them is dealing with their own traumas and unnerving memories. Nick who was abandoned by his mother as a child; Lisa whose best friend suddenly stopped talking to her; and a dead woman whose story is yet to be unravelled.

Raw and sharp dialogues are interrupted with poetically elusive inner conversations that bridge the real and the imaginary. Unpretentious, elegant and emotionally driven choreography is designed to reflect the deepest feelings that cannot be expressed with words. The projected film serves as a subtext for the characters’ actions. The cinematography becomes an alter-ego that takes the audience into a space full of reoccurring day-dreams and hallucinations. At times lyrical, at times disturbing, the sound adds a finishing touch to complete the atmosphere.

This piece is loosely inspired by Ray Bradbury’s short science-fiction story ‘’No Particular Night or Morning’’ and is performed in English, Spanish and Greek.

Director: Anna Soboleva

Music: Maxim Sant' Orsola and Anna Soboleva

Performers: Maria Fotiadou, Ksenia Taranenko, Charly Martelli

Film: Miguel O'Trash

Pictures taken by Miguel O'Trash

Our conciousness is always 80 milliseconds behind...when you realise that this is present it is already in the past... We are lost between reality and memories, desperately trying to go back, but unable to catch something that is no longer there...seconds, like grains of rice are escaping through the fingers...

Saudage... longing for something that is no longer there...but still present for us...We are chasing memories and are chased by them, memories that are constantly transforming themselves erasing borders between the concepts of past, present and future..

Devised by:

Anna Soboleva, Jay Walker, Petra Freimund, Ollie Savidge, Laura Steiner

Photos taken by Alex Eisenberg

A juxtaposition of modern urban reality and the phantasmagorical. Mapping a reality-inside-a-reality, contrasting converging narratives, blending enigmas with scientific interpretations of high tech surveillance, data encryption, information overflow and pastoral walled community in a maze of magical realism.

We are all functioning under a dualistic nature the one within that is intrinsic and searching to be void of sensory perception and one that is without that contains high stimulus and overbearing information that we have to process on a day to day basis.

Setting up musically, physically, and technically two separate worlds contained within one space and reality the main character of this piece, struggles with which consciousness is worth dissolving and letting go? And what happens when these two worlds meet?

“Unchose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.” Hard boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami

Devised by:

Anna Soboleva, Jay Walker, Petra Freimund, Ollie Savidge, Piper Jane Brown

Photos taken by Mia Chen