Starość i wykluczenie w spektaklu Saszka Bramy "Jesień na Plutonie"
Senility and Exclusion in Sashko Brama’s Play "Autumn on Pluto"

Author(s): Anna Korzeniowska-Bihun
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta
Keywords: Ukraine;verbatim theater;Sashko Brama;senility;exlusion
Summary/Abstract: Anna Korzeniowska-Bihun in the chapter Senility and Exclusion in Sashko Brama’s Play "Autumn on Pluto" analyzes the unique way in which Ukrainian artists developed the eponymous documentary theatrical project based on the interviews conducted in a Lviv nursing home. Sashko Brama translates the project’s title as follows: Autumn stands for the final stage of life and Pluto is the outermost planet of the Solar System. The text depicts the way project’s creators talk about senility and exclusion. Their work consists of three stages. The first focused on gathering and artistic transformation of the source material, which involved an in-depth examination of both performers’ and viewers’ reflection on the passing of time, infirmity, fear of death, and social rejection. The second covered the creation of two versions of the show with the use of hyperrealistic puppet-portraits of selected nursing home residents. The hyperrealism of the stage characters was enhanced by the implementation of authentic voice recordings which made huge puppets mirror their real equivalents. The performance in both versions developed a story about senility understood as the inner, private, and relative experience of the passing time, as well as the physical condition of a human being trapped in their own body. The third element of the artists’ work discussed in the chapter was pivoted around social activities addressing regular and systematic art-therapy sessions with the residents of the nursing home, in a part entitled Spring on Pluto. This art-therapy is analyzed as an attempt to solve a number of social and psychological problems identified by the performers throughout the documentation of the source material.

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