The most effective method of catching a butterfly is with alcohol. Catch it in a glass jar. Make sure the wings are folded. If necessary, you can fold them carefully yourself. Feel free to use rubbing alcohol, but first you should pinch the butterfly hard over itschest, without causing visible damage. It is a demanding technique that requires practice to perfect. Experiment with night warmers first. The aim is that the butterfly should only be paralysed. That way, she won't destroy herself in panic.
If the wings are damaged, the butterfly is lost. With the right technique, she is suffocated slowly. Butterflies don't make sounds, they just collapse into themselves. If they are held carefully at the moment of death, they will be able to be rehydrated later, and they can be unfolded again for their viewer. A butterfly caught between glass plates will be beautiful forever.
The beauty that contains suffering is, according to Vladimir Nabokov, the closest we can get to art.
Lo has passed the middle of life. She has never received a lewd text or email, and she realizes that she will most likely never be sexually harassed. It is too late. She is too old. She has spent too much time with her three friends in the drag group The Three Sisters: Mo, Ho and My, who, like her, are becoming invisible. Lo probably belongs to the last generation of women who have never had, and never will have, a dick pick. She feels an unacceptable sadness, but then: why has no one ever wanted to send her an offensive picture of their penis?
Do-re-me-too-sa-Lo-li-ta becomes a performance about desire, aging and a last attempt at sexual awakening.
Hildur Kristinsdottir is a director, playwright and actor, and Eirik Willyson is a writer, playwright and performer. They have visited Black Box teater a number of times, both together and separately. Kristinsdottir was an associate artist at the theater from 2017 to 2019. Kristinsdottir/Willyson is known for unpredictable performances with big questions, strong emotions and small people.
Their work is characterized by friction between private and collective experiences, between the text and a physical-visual idiom, between the immediate and performer-based on the one hand and the strictly choreographed and directed on the other.
+ Friday 24 November from 17.00, Kristinsdottir/Willyson and Black Box teater invite you to a pre-party before the performance. There will be poetry, ping-pong and talk, as well as the opportunity to buy pizza and beer. Willyson reads from his upcoming novel Nesodden. After the performance, there will be a party!
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On stage
Mo: Ibrahim Fazlic
Ho: Eirik Willyson
My: Magnus Myhr
Lo: Hildur Kristinsdottir
