Hello, I am Shelley Duvall. Welcome to tonight’s tale show. Imagine, if you will, a theater in the heart of Europe. And inside this theater, there are two clowns, Terror and Compassion, who arrive from far, far, far away... They do not bring balloons or candy. Instead, they kidnap a bunch of children to teach them that our world is in captivity. Because in this tale, the planet has been stolen, the territories are systematically robbed, the language is kidnapped, and even bodies and desires are looted and bottled. But hey, don't give up hope! Because the clowns laugh, they weep, they are haunted by déjà-vus, conjuring ghosts of history, dictators, bankers, philosophers, who march across the stage showing us how the fuck we got here. They whisper about fascism, about climate change, about our lives turned into a casino. And the children… oh, the children! They grow too fast in this captivity. Some escape, some vanish, some fall silent forever. Until, at last, the survivors sit among the ruins, listening to the final planetary journal: an Earth where the dead outnumber the living, a stage designed not for us, but for them, the corpses who inherit the Planet. So, sit close and welcome to tonight’s tale show. It’s called: KIDNAPPED: A Training Ground for the Brutality that is Coming.
Trigger Warning: this performance kidnaps you. The scene contains climate anxiety, fascism, contemporary corpses, critical speech, colonial and capitalist ruins, and ongoing violence. The audience may be exposed to participation, loud sounds, strong imagery, and political discomfort.
