The inspiration for the latest production of Continuo Theatre came from observations of everyday life and selected verses from the works of Antonin Artaud, Sylvia Plath, Vladimíra Čerepková, and T. S. Eliot.
In CRACKS, dreamlike visions, grotesqueness, and madness form an arc of the existential substance of human life, the fatality and lostness of the individual in contemporary society.
Testimonies and confessions from the other side of normality burst through the cracks of everyday life. It is as if the earth’s crust has been torn open and lava begins to flow through the scar, burning everything in its destructive path, only for new plants of unprecedented beauty to grow on it after some time.
In Continuo’s new production, the physicality of the performers is once again combined with original music and specific visual poetics. The creative team thus continues to develop its own unique language creating an original consonance between physical and visual theater.
In CRACKS, everyday life „cracks“ under the weight of theatrical imagery, allowing us to glimpse the most beautiful and terrifying aspects of the answer to the question of who a human being is (especially when no one is watching), what happens when we lose all restraints – and, above all, how not to lose them.
