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Tue 1 – Fri 4 July 2025
Drama
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Directed by Leonor Estrada
A father king cleaves the body of his territory like a knife for two daughters whose falsity is so obvious a child would see through it, while the last daughter cannot say I love you at all. Thus begins a tragical-comical-historical-pastoral-romantical-absurdist-surrealist piece of writing full of improbable going-ons, unbelievable lies, absurd wrath, impossible disguises, pitiful suicide attempts, bad parenting, pathetic fallacy, pointless make-believe, acting crazy, acts of schoolboy excess, trippings and pushings and kickings, grotesque violence, other undignified things and seemingly unending accumulated deaths underscored by constant failures to recognise, to see and to speak what is undeniably true.