F E M I N I N E O C T A G O N [O R, A R I S T O T L E C A N E A T M E]
written by
Amy Gijsbers van Wijk
A fever dream, an encounter with gods and goddesses, or just an average college party?
Feminine Octagon [or, Aristotle can eat me] is a serpentine journey of identity, connection, and the utterly bizarre loneliness of being.
produced by
directed by J E S S I C A O ‘ H A R A B A K E R
associate director E L L E N P A U L I G
assistant director K A T R I N E B O L Y K K E B E R G
sound design K A R L H E D I N G
light design I G O R H A L I C K I
projection & video design J O S E P H S H E R L O C K , T O M L E W I N , K A R L H E D I N G , I G O R H A L I C K I
stage manager A R A G O R N X A V I E R N I K O L E I D A M G A A R D
photography L A U R A I O A N A V
CAST
Orpheus V I C T O R H U G O
Dirt T J A R L I S I M O N E S E L V I G
Flowers L I F F S O L A N T H O M S E N
Mary Shelley G E R T R U D M A G N U S S O N
Allure M I C H E L L E B O W M A N B A K
Candy / Eurydice_19969 S E R E N O R O S Z V A R Y
Premiered 14 AUGUST 2021
F O L K E T E A T R E T
CPH Queer Festival, PRIDE WEEK
Copenhagen Denmark
Premiered 27 AUGUST 2021
B Ø S S E H U S E T
Copenhagen Denmark
R E V I E W S
“the webcam projection scenes are creative, engaging theatre. Oroszvary is convincingly tragi-comic with spider lashes and a sultry yet bored voice. Her authority on camera points to female dominance, while her deft depiction of performative virginity vs actual vulnerability raises troubling questions about real female agency.”
“individual moments that shine: Eurydice_19969 reciting her weekly grocery spend and childhood memories in cam-girl getup… Candy’s furious, self-hating diatribe in front of the mirror.”
"a lightning-fast, drippingly sarcastic dialogue between two young women"
”While Bowman Bak stands to land jokes (and there are plenty), Oroszvary jumps around the sparse scenography with phenomenally choreographed mania, making full use of both her own physique and the limited space of the room.”
"a wildly entertaining play, with a razor-sharp script and a host of stellar performances..."
“It is in the total lack of a traditionally constructed plot, a constant play with temporality and continuity, and a pervasive magical realism (which has no need to explain its own rules) that the performance almost becomes a manifesto of queer theoretical storytelling... The results are fabulous"
“It's liberating, it's life-giving, and it's equal parts funny and cruel... The results are fabulous"