POPPEA
Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt
Poppea is one of the strongest female characters of Antiquity: she who has fought her way up through the hierarchy to becoming the emperor’s wife. The woman’s power play is vulnerable and exposed in another manner than is the man’s. And what tension arises when the male appropriates the female, and femininity dons the mask of masculinity? Who is whose victim? When androgyny leads to concealment, all the usual rules of play are altered. How do we fulfil the dreams that are ever larger than ourselves? And what happens as we fail, in our own eyes and in the eyes of others? In a chamber play involving some of Norway’s best dancers, the playful search for the beauty found in imperfection continues.
