Friday, June 25 & Saturday, June 26 at 9:30 pm
Zagreb Youth Theatre , Teslina 7
LA FURA DELS BAUS BARCELONA, SPAIN
XXX

Four continents from their very beginnings till now. From 1979 when their vertiginous success started, to 1983 their shows were connected to an aesthetic of street theatre, while later they started to approach a direct action theatre aesthetic that uses a wide range of stages and interactive strategies. Starting from the concept of collective creation where the actor, author and director switch their roles and become equally important or unimportant, they created a so-called furero language addressing the audience and expecting an active, dedicated role from them, many times based on the principle save yourself who can. In the last decade of the 20th century the group’s repertoire has taken the challenge of written drama and opera, movie, internet streaming and also digital theatre where the dialogues of characters are in interactive correlation with projections in web site formats.

This is the third visit of La Fura to Eurokaz: in 1987 they presented the piece Suz/o/Suz and in 1990 Tier Mon.

XXX is Fura’s third piece based on text and aims towards renewing, researching and revolutionizing an erotic-pornographic genre in theatre. The show is inspired by the novel "Philosophy In The Boudoir" by Marquise de Sade, written in 1795 in which the French writer gives a detailed introduction of a young woman into a world of sex and metaphysical lust. Long before the birth of psychoanalysis, de Sade’s piece brings to light the most hidden inclinations of human subconscious and deliberates them from moral chains, permitting them to sail freely in a state of high tension.

On the stage we can see four performers, a table and threatening screen. This trip through modesty, perverseness and insanity touches deeply de Sade’s world, his intellectual and philosophical background, ingeniousness, cruelty and selfishness, but also the incomprehensible, absolute fascination of viewing multiple shapes of sexuality around us. In XXX, Fura’s creative power is serving the imagination and beauty of Eros. It is a faithful but at the same time extraordinarily modern and indispensable interpretation of De Sade’s radical world.

The audience, accepting the challenge to play with the erotic genre, participates in the creation of this orgiastic, energetic and disturbing pamphlet, but cuts in the performance direct us to deep political and eschatologically topical implications. XXX offers a vision of violent sexuality based on a world where liberation from moral barriers is Barthes's imperative of de Sade's archived future.

http://www.lafura.com/xxx/