"MARDI GRAS CONFESSOR" FILIPPOS TSITSOPOULOS BONE 14 BERN 2011

"MARDI GRAS CONFESSOR"
A VISUAL LETTER TO NORBERT KLASSEN
performance for 4 screen videos and actor

BONE 14 FESTIVAL OF PERFORMANCES
FILIPPOS TSITSOPOULOS- 2011
Text of the performance:
Marat Sade- reflexions about Life and Death- Peter Weiss
Rockaby - Samuel Beckett
Shakespeare- Hamlet- Polonius reading Ophelia´s letter
(Language- English- Spanish- Greek)

Text:
"- Dear Norbert, De Sade in one of your inmortal texts receive that life begins with Death.
- ....And this Death Marat only could exist in our imagination.(in Greek)- We only we could give a sence to this life. Each death even the cruelest one, is drown in the total indiference of Nature. Nature would watch unmove if we destroyed the entire human race.
I hate Nature.
I want to destroy it. This unbreakable iceberg face that can be bear everything. Because havent we always crushed those weakers than ourselves? Havent we thrown in the throats of the powerfull, with constinous villany and lust?
Havent we experimented the tortures first in our laboratories before applying them to the people?(voice from videos and laughs- similar to the supposed Charington Hospital)
Man is a destroyer(video voice)
-I remember the execution of this Damiens, how much soft is our quillotine if you compair it with his suffering. They tortured him during four hours., meanwhile Casanova touch some lady¨s legs underneath her skirts. They cut his legs and arms,(they put his nail off- video voice in Greek: they burn his hand), they cut him in pieces and boiled oil and wax they thrown on the wounds. And after all this suffering he was alive .... only that his voice was a little wicked. Finally was hanged like a piece of wood full of blood, looking at the cross of his father confessor.
-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHhhhh tttthat was a really a festival!
All our todays festivals are just games.
We judge without passion and with routine, Our Holly Inquisition is not amusing us anymore(voice from the videos)
- They didnt offer us the view of a beatyful tragic death!
(The performar goes out and takes the part of the play that belongs to the supposed Marat. Then we realize that the performer is playing the two supposed persons, is really a monoloque and not a dialoque. the confrontation of two diferent worlds of thinking is an one way thinking and nothing else.)
- De Sade De Sade...... you are still speaking like the Grant Senior, you are formed in our revolution ideals, and the think you call indiference of Nature in only your own luck of compasion, and nothing else!
-(Once again the performer adopts now the other character of the play and speaks to the fish, the supposed Marat)..- Marat Marat Marat..COMPASION IS A PROPERTY OF THE PRIVILEGE CLASSES, when the rich is giving charity to the begger pretends that he is touched to axalt his richness and what he gives to the begger is only a kick in the ass!
-Dear Marquis, if I m extreme, I m not the same way as you. Against silence I act. In the vast indiference of nature I invent a meaning, and I say there are things that are wrong and can be changed, this this.....this.You must turn youself upside down like gloves and see everything with fresh brand new eyes!
-Marat I DONT GIVE REALLY A Shit about all ideals and Ideologies that lead us to a dead end road
I only care about myself, And behind me above me and everywhere I look I only see Silence and nothing more.
I love to desapear and erase all my traces.
(Voice of the videos)- Love and die, live and dia play and die fuck and die
(Voice of a cassete)- Till the end the day came at the end came close of a long day....
- (repeating) Till in the end the day came......(cuting the fish in pieces at the meantime the videos they turn to an unbearable laughter)
-(Sings) Tonight we love each other( making reference to the two supposed and divided Yo of the figure called the Mardi gras-confessor)
(Finished to the end)
- Doudt that the stars are on fire , doubt that the sundot moves doubt that truth could be a lier but never doubt about my Love!
End

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