Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

• Duration: 1 h 30
• Islande
• Adult audience
• 957 vues

Five Nordic women and one terrifying secret... Five creatures who appear ageless, possessed by a spirit which periodically whips them up into a Dionysian frenzy… Is it possible to escape madness? Fantastical and larger than life, a former collaborator of Björk and an icon to a generation of Icelandic artists, with Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness, Erna Omarsdottir continues to explore her favourite themes: adolescence, trance states, the biological and psychic changes which shape our being. In the process she dissects the extreme, contrasting emotions these changes produce in our bodies and souls. In this intimate mixture of theatre, dance and live music, she unpicks the intense relationships which bind these women together (we are never quite sure if they are sisters, nuns, witches, best friends, cult members or polygamous wives), investigating the things that divide them as well as the unconditional love which keeps them together.