author and director: Ani Vaseva
dramaturge: Boyan Manchev
design: Georgi Sharov
music: Konstantin Markov
photography: Georgi Dimitrov
with: Leonid Yovchev and Galya Kostadinova
Premiere – March 2016, DNK, Sofia
“The theatre of desire is apocalyptic theatre. Yet not a theatre of the one-off Apocalypse, but of the permanent Apocalypse. The Apocalypse is the ultimate event that ends time and all secondary events, it is the absolute one-off unrepeatable event. Our theatrical apocalypse is the same, but upside down – not the one-off end of history, but the unfolding of time in its apocalyptic nature. The world and time have shaken off their misery and are swimming in the absolute, the unrepeatable – and so on ad infinitum. Like Trotsky’s permanent revolution, the permanent apocalypse introduces a permanent state of exception, without compromise. Not the flow of the ordinary interrupted by the rupture of the extraordinary, but the extraordinary transformed into a flow without being banalized. A permanentstate of excessive use of time and energy, a permanent, impossible intensity going far beyond the threshold of human capabilities, permanent total damage – that which is supposedly unique and which ends everything, but which is prolonged and hooked to infinity.
TOTAL DAMAGE is absolute expenditure of existing. Destruction, from which our phoenix rises – ruin is our oeuvre. The place where existence is possible only as permanent apocalypse. Revealing of what is hidden, manifestation of what is double, triple and multiple, discerning of what is single. We are moved by desire, which is totally expended, without being exhausted. Desire that gives you fever and has no purpose, besides actualizing itself. Not to attain its object, because there is no object, but to be constant reality. Desire has no perspective, doesn’t meet the dark melancholy of its accomplishment. Its world is absolute and it motor is perpetuum. We are trotskyists of desire.”
Ani Vaseva
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Total Damage was created with the support of Sofia Municipality’s Culture Programme for 2016 and DNK/National Palace of Culture.