CLAPPING THE BELL

CLAPPING THE BELL (2022)

Clapping the Bell is a scenic docufiction about the diverse and unique experiences of young adults with autism spectrum disorder, their connections to the world: to the outside world, to another person, to each other's inner worlds on the threshold of adulthood.

Concept - Orsolya Fodor, Sára Holczer, Haibo Illés

The performance is based on interviews, artistic experiments already made on the subject, written material, assumptions, refutations, hesitations, realisations, conversations, and is created with the tools of representational acting. The aim of the research is to channel the experiences and perspectives of young people with autism into an artistic field traditionally focused on the majority society.

"I could compare the production to a hard circuit training, which is of course much funnier than a training ever was or will be, but at the same time it is built on repetitions and variations in sequence. Movements that are simple in fact, yet which, in addition to each other, make heavy use of the players. This, of course, works perfectly as a metaphor: it exemplifies the Sisyphean effort that people with autism spectrum disorder make in situations that are not at all problematic for mainstream society."- Panni Puskás critic, szinhaz.net

The performance premiered on the main stage of the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts and has been performed at several festivals.

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