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8:30 PM

Picture Perfect

Theatre / Performance|SRSLYyours Ensemble

  • Rialto Theatre, Limassol

  • English
  • 15 Euro / 12 Euro

The picture shows the Windows background: a green field with a hill and a blue sky with some clouds. Two women and one man in sports clothes seem to hover above the field, each staring in different directions. © SRSLYyours

Lea, Max and Mia, the protagonists of Picture Perfect are engaged in a curious activity. Strangely detached from themselves and others, they reenact iconic images from a large photographic archive as a way to understand their presence, place and connection to the world.

Navigating through this digital wasteland – and gradually engaging their voice, body, breath and tears – the performers discover a potential loophole to rise from the “techno-scientific” obsession of simulated imagery toward rediscovering real human experiences.

The award-winning Ensemble SRSLYyours challenges the theatrical experience, connecting 3 protagonists, 1 virtual butler and the audience in one single group-chat for stage. While the audience is following the performance partly live, partly along an image-/text-based script on their digital devices, fragments of a broken history unfold: the sound of a bird, the Kardashians, Hiroshima, a drowned boy…

SRSLYyours is an international group of performers, dramaturges, researchers and visual artists based in Cyprus, Germany, Sweden, Greece and Switzerland (Artistic Directors: Achim Wieland and Marios Ioannou). They understand theater as an incentive for social change –perhaps a political one. We embrace cross-genre and participatory formats and believe the stage to be the perfect place for people to meet and exchange ideas in the most essential way avoiding conventional narratives and ready-made truths. Dramaturgy, research, direction, writing and visual means are equal components which inform each other in fluid processes and within non-hierarchal structures.

Direction / Dramaturgy: Achim Wieland
Co-Dramaturgy: Marios Ioannou
Performers: Marios Ioannou, Elena Kallinikou, Marina Makris
Text: Achim Wieland, Marios Ioannou with the support of Performers and Collaborators.
Movement: Michalis Aristidou
Interactivity Support and Development: Diego Armando Aparicio
Text Support: Barry Church-Woods
Advisor / Editor: Rania Iakovou
Sound Editing / Composition: Dimitris Savva              
Light Design: Yiorgos Lazoglou
Costume / Set Design: Andreas Antoniou
Production / Interactivity: Yiangos Hadjiyiannis
Assistant Interactivity: Polymnia Tsinti

Awards: National Award 2019/MilanOff, Grand Prix Stockholm 2020/Stoff, Best Theatre Performance on Berlin Stages 2017/Zitty, Berlinale Issue.

Partners: Rialto Theatre, Goethe-Institut Cyprus
Supporter: Dancehouse Limassol
Thank you: Tanzfabrik/Berlin, Konstkollektivet/Gothenburg

Audience Notification

To be able to attend the performance, a personal smart phone is required for each audience member. The smart phone is only for personal use and will only be functioning as a reading/viewing device in a group chat for the duration of the performance.

The performance will be partly followed on a smartphone using the Whatsapp application. We ask the audience members to bring their smartphones charged and to download the application BEFORE arrival at the theater. Further instructions will be given before the event so the audience is kindly requested to arrive at the theatre 30 min before the start of the performance.

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