Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Outlandish Theatre’s nine performers explore what happens when desire rubs up against an unpleasant reality
Global Desires: Flashes of brilliance, but this performance art leaves a sense of disruption and discomfort
The performers’ expressions of yearning involve everything from dancing to performing monologues to knocking on wood to watering flowers. The result can be exceptionally compelling but also, at times, feel clunky and confusing. Global Desires is certainly more performance art than conventional theatre, but there are moments when it can come across as a drama-school exercise.
Find Your Eyes: ‘Oh Lord, will it be like this all the way through?’ we ask at first. But this tricky piece rewards surrenderHaving so many people running, shaking, dancing, shouting, slithering, sleeping, undressing, kissing or breathing deeply in front of you tends overwhelm the narrative, however. Are we meant to laugh or cry? It’s hard to tell. Perhaps this is intentional, as much art-based activism sets out to disrupt, but a feeling of uncomfortableness is ever-present.
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