R A W E G G S
" That day I photographed my mother who looked like Pina Bausch when she would cry. "
RAW EGGS is structured around an interview in which a transgender man is invited so he can join a private group, the Social Disaster Club. What first appears as a formal interview gradually becomes a destabilised performative encounter where identity, institutional language and power relations are constantly negotiated. The interview unfolds through interruptions, music interventions and shifts between documentary, fiction and performative disruption. Two performers sit at a table surrounded by basil plants, within a live installation that functions as both a domestic environment and a symbolic space of exposure, fragility and resistance. Instead of Apollo’s sacred laurel, they chew a herb of everyday sanctity, which brings alertness and a connection between prehistory -the unconscious- and rational consciousness. The interview begins and strange stories emerge. The work engages with questions of identity, freedom, courage and the ways family structures become systems of judgement, recognition and belonging, combining original text, polyphonic songs, electronic music and installation-based set.
Written, Directed by Artemis Chrysostomidou
Music by Lia Stavropoulou
Performed by Leigh Sayers, Lia Stavropoulou
Coproduced by SO MUCH DRAMA, O Rumo do Fumo Lisbon, Altofest Naples, Alkantara Festival Lisbon
Supported by Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Polo Cultural Gaivotas / Boavista, Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture, Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Berlin
Presented at ACUD Theater Berlin, BRABA plataforma, Alkantara Festival Lisbon,
Altofest Naples, Espaço da Penha Lisbon
GERMANY
16 May 2026
ACUD Theater Berlin
PORTUGAL ii
29, 30 November 2024
BRABA plataforma
ITALY
16, 17, 18 June 2023
PORTUGAL i
2 September 2022
O Rumo do Fumo, Espaço da Penha Lisbon
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