“ANGELA (a strange loop)”: Susanne Kennedy returns at the Athens Epidaurus Festival

What is the nature of reality? How is the self constructed? What does it mean to be human? In an attempt to answer these questions, Susanne Kennedy collaborates with the visual artist Markus Selg and puts a woman suffering from a disease under the microscope, scrutinizing every moment in one’s life from birth to death.

Here with her signature post-humanist, futuristic aesthetics, Kennedy explores the dynamic relationship between the human body, technology, and art in the post-pandemic age. A darkly poetic approach to the fundamental questions of existence, identity, and consciousness through the lens of illness.

One of the most important creators of her generation, a regular collaborator of Volksbühne, Susanne Kennedy was introduced to the Greek audience at the Athens Epidaurus Festival 2019 with the performance Virgin Suicides.

Artists

Concept, text, and direction Susanne Kennedy

Concept – Set design Markus Selg

Sound design Richard Alexander

Soundtrack Richard Alexander, Diamanda La Berge Dramm

Live music Diamanda La Berge Dramm

Video design Rodrik Biersteker, Markus Selg

Costumes Andra Dumitrascu

Dramaturgy Helena Eckert

Lighting design Rainer Casper

Artistic associate Friederika Kötter

Stage Assistant Lili Süper

Assistants to Costume Designer Anna Jannicke, Anastasia Pilepchuk

Cast Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, Kate Strong, Tarren Johnson, Dominic Santia

Voices Ethan Braun, Rita Kahn Chen, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, Tarren Johnson, Susanne Kennedy, Ruth Rosenfeld, Dominic Santia, Rubina Schuth, Cathal Sheerin, Marie Schleef, Kate Strong

Production Ultraworld Productions

Tour management and international distribution Something Great

Co-production Wiener Festwochen, Festival d’Automne à Paris & Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe, Festival d’Avignon, Holland Festival, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, National Theatre Drama – Prague Crossroads, Romaeuropa Festival, Teatro Nacional de São João, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

With the support of Stichting Ammodo and Kulturstiftung des Bundes and financed by the Culture and Mass Media Commissioner of the Federal Government of Germany