Catch Kollektíva - MU Színház: VICSOR
VICSOR is a performance about releasing the emotions that lie dormant within us—especially anger—without taboos, expectations, or the pressure to conform. It is a welcoming space where the audience and performers can collectively experience feelings that are not given room in everyday life. A candid confession about the difficulties of everyday life as a woman.
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VICSOR (forced, aggressive smile) is a punk song, a cry, a shout, a collage, a curiosity and a beginning. A place where two females can escape from the hardships of their daily lives. A world where they can investigate different identities, roles and characters that live inside of them. Where they can do whatever, let their crazy out, have fun, laugh and just waste time. Where they don’t have to live up to anyone’s expectations, where they can leave even their own behind. Where they don’t have to exist or behave in a certain way. A safe space for them to feel their emotions, be happy, sad, excited or angry, where they can be vulnerable. A place where they can share, rely and support each other. Where they can process and create things together. A world fueled by stupid ideas, desire and feminine power. More doing less thinking.
VICSOR is an invitation for others to experience that world in their own way, an invitation to watch us go crazy. VICSOR is a permission to fall apart.
In society, women's roles are associated with images of caring, nurturing and passivity. In the traditional arts, representations of women are delicate, noble, soft and are more about beauty than character. The classical woman is quiet, consolidated, kind, has no will of her own, no strong emotions, her value lies in her beauty and in what she can offer to others. Anger, on the other hand, is an active, aggressive emotion, about the individual and not about serving others. A woman cannot be angry or stubborn, she can not put her own needs before others’. As women, we are taught from an early age that anger must not be given space, it must be suppressed. And when it does happen to come out, despite our efforts to keep it inside, we get the feedback that we are overreacting, being hysterical and we are probably just on our periods.
How can anger build rather than destroy? How can we transform its power into creative energy? Where can we allow ourselves to experience the vulnerability that comes with anger? How can we create this space for ourselves? How can we create a safe environment for ourselves where we can let in outside eyes while maintaining our openness?
