In "ANGELA (a strange loop)," the latest collaboration between Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg, a woman's life unfolds in a space that constantly shifts between the real and the virtual. This is the story of Angela, a seemingly ordinary social media influencer, who suffers from a mysterious illness which is spreading inside her. With their metamodernistic aesthetic and multimedia approach in this new creation, the German theater director Susanne Kennedy, in collaboration with visual artist Markus Selg, once again transcends the traditional limits of theater, plunging into a labyrinthine, ever-changing multimedia production. What is going on inside Angela’s restless mind? Everything she dreams, hears, and thinks manifests itself in space, just as everything that happens in the world is reflected within her, like a state of unstoppable hyper-inflammation, leading to a strange and endless loop. What is Angela’s disease a symptom of and what does it tell us about what it means to be human today?

Coproduction

Supported by Stichting Ammodo (Ammodo Foundation) and the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) with funding by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media)

World premiere: May 11, 2023, at Théâtre National Wallonie Bruxelles as part of Kunstenfestivaldesarts.