The Television's Lady

182, D. Agmasheneblis Ave., Tbilisi

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English, Georgian, Russian

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The Television's Lady – first part of the Five Plays Series , 38 min

The Unified Theatre, Tunise

Projects by: Abderahmen Cherif & Sadok Aïdani

This performance explores how the television screen becomes a powerful hypnotic instrument of depersonalization, blurring the line between reality and virtual worlds.

A lonely woman returns home and disappears into her giant television screen. She loses her language, then her face, then her identity. A virtual anchor, a man-eye who controls the storm, and a rock and roll dancer appear. She enters the virtual world, receives an injection of the “identity drug” and is eventually shot by a virtual bullet, after which she is wrapped in a white robe.

The performance is based on “cine-mimemes” (spontaneous, universal gestural signs). He combines magical realism, dirty realism, surrealism, meta-realism and abstract-poetic elements to create oneiric (dream-like) dimensions.

Sadok Aidan (b. 1951, Belgium) is a Tunisian actor, director, teacher and former collaborator of Ludwik Flaschen (co-founder of the Wrocław Laboratory Theatre with Jerzy Grotowski). He has worked in North/Central America, Asia and Europe. Since 2006 he has lived in Tunisia, teaching at ISAD. Since 2021 he has been collaborating with Abderrahmane Cherif, creating the clown pantomime Storyless Blead.

Abderrahmane Cherif (b. 1995, Mahdia, Tunisia) graduated from ISAD in Tunis in 2019. In 2020, he founded The Unified Theatre. He is a theatre and film director, actor, playwright, set designer, prop and puppeteer. He has taught theatre games, clowning and dramatic writing. He created the solo project Clown at Home and the short stop-motion film Be Mole Be More (Camel Lazaar Foundation). Since 2021, he has been collaborating with Aidan.

The Unified Theatre was founded in 2020. Its goal is original dramatic production and community engagement through workshops.

The Unified Theatre rejects verbal and academic formalism, creating a new stage grammar through hyper-empirical observation of real-life micro-events. The actor’s body becomes the main instrument of the narrative.

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Movement Theatre

182, D. Agmasheneblis Ave., Tbilisi

The history of "Movement Theater" is an integral part of the life of its founder, Kakha Bakuradze. Before opening the theater in Georgia, Kakha Bakuradze worked in Western Europe and returned to Georgia in 2000 after many years of practice. At the theater institute, he gave pantomime lessons to future actors. In 2001, the first performance "Richard the Third" was staged together with the students of the Theater School, which was evaluated as the best experiment of the year. It was here that a band of students saw Kakha Bakuradze's possibility of establishing his own theater and began his journey in the world of movement. Kakha Bakuradze's troupe started the first public performances in the streets. The Movement Theatre was in constant motion and changed rehearsal spaces whenever possible, until the completion of the construction of its own theater (2013), which the artistic director and the cast built with their own hands. Since then, creative activities, which do not mean only theatrical performances, have not stopped in this building for a single day. A lot of creative evenings were held in the Kakha Bakuradze Movement Theater and their selection is based on only one criterion - the creativity must be original.

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