Astra Dark Interior

contenuto

OHT confronts a classic of Western literature; Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus. Moving around the time of the experiment, OHT makes partial and vertical lunges into the text, without limits of form, language and duration. The novel becomes material to be examined, dissected, re-stitched, a body available for different experiments: a performance, a reading session, an installation, an EP, an aborted radio drama, a filmic adaptation and finally a book are generated as parts of the same experimentation that proceeds horizontally through the Shelley’s story to investigate its multiple ramifications.

The installation, conceived for the spaces of the Astra Theatre, recovers a waste-space, an architectural gap omitted from the executive drawings of the theatre itself. It is a plunge into the architecture of the theatre that manifests itself in all its design aporia. A dark, unresolved interior, a room kept from the public now shows itself for what it is; a hiding place. And it is the feeling of this spatial gap, the discovery of a precluded place, omitted from view, that evokes the presence of the monster and triggers an incomprehensible dialogue with the need to remain hidden and invisibility. A sentimental encounter between architectural obscenity and the evocation of Frankenstein.

“On examining my dwelling, I found that one of the windows of the cottage had formerly occupied a part of it, but the panes had been filled up with wood. In one of these was a small and almost imperceptible chink through which the eye could just penetrate” Mary Shelley

year

2023

running time

0:08:00.0 in loop

genre

installation

press

La Lettura > Frankenstein è uno choc climatico - 29.I.2023
PAC > La solitudine interstellare, i salti quantici e il cuore nel Frankenstein di OHT - 16.II.23
Sipario > Frankenstein - 19.II.23
Agenda17 > La crisi climatica è un mostro che sfugge al controllo e si diffonde - 20.II.23
Krapp Last's Tape > Frankenstein di OHT: tra mostro e ambiente - 25.II.23
Artribune > Il Frankenstein di Mary Shelley di OHT a teatro parla del mondo di oggi - 02.III.23

credits

ASTRA DARK INTERIOR
by OHT [Office for a Human Theatre]

> idea, set and writing Filippo Andreatta
> suond Davide Tomat
> stage manager Cosimo Ferrigolo

> production Teatro Piemonte Europa foundation
> in collaboration with Office for a Human Theatre

production history

8.II.23 > Astra Theatre, Turin > opening
9-12.II.23 > Astra Theatre, Turin
16-19.II.23 > Astra Theatre, Turin
23-26.II.23 > Astra Theatre, Turin
1-3.III.23 > Astra Theatre, Turin
8-12.III.23 > Astra Theatre, Turin
14-19.III.23 > Astra Theatre, Turin
28.III-2.IV.23 > Astra Theatre, Turin
18-23.IV.23 > Astra Theatre, Turin
9-14.V.23 > Astra Theatre, Turin

astra dark interior