Live Performance of Creative Work
When The Light Leaves
Jayde Kirchert
Citizen Theatre for La Mama Theatre, supported by the City of Melbourne | Published : 2019
Abstract
Mara KORPER is a feminist sci-fi spectacle that follows in the footsteps of dystopian classics such as Handmaid’s Tale, Brave New World and 1984. It is set 1000 years in the future, in a dystopian world where the government owns all bodies, gender is obsolete and the flesh must remain whole. Through an exploration of power, extremist ideology, conformity and agency, Mara KORPER asks: “who really owns your body?” reflecting on the vulnerability of the body & the ways it is always subject to institutional power, surveillance & control. Fusing the latest sound technology with absurdist expressionism, Mara KORPER is on the cutting edge of experimental feminist theatre, featuring an integration o..
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