SEPPUKU. EL FUNERAL DE MISHIMA o el placer de morir
Angélica Liddell returns to pay tribute to Yukio Mishima with a performance about beauty, eroticism, and death as forms of transcendence
Angélica Liddell returns to pay tribute to Yukio Mishima with a performance about beauty, eroticism, and death as forms of transcendence
Hagakure, “in the shadow of the leaves,” the code of the samurais, inspires this piece about Yukio Mishima, an obsessive figure for Angélica Liddell, in a unique performance staged at dawn, just before sunrise. Through seppuku, the ritual suicide, the show offers a tribute to death as an avant-garde, radical, and sincere act. On the centenary anniversary of the writer’s birth, Liddell transforms Mishima into stage material: eroticism, beauty, and violence as paths to freedom. Following Vudú (3318), Blixen (TA23), and Caridad (TA22), Temporada Alta presents a new world premiere from this regular creator of the festival, known as the most visceral in the European theater scene
Artistic team
Direction, text, scenography, and costume: Angélica Liddell
The play includes fragments from the texts Patriotismo and El marino que perdió la gracia del mar by Yukio Mishima. Adaptation of the NOH play Hagoromo. La túnica de plumas (14th century)
Performers: Alberto Alonso Martínez, Angélica Liddell, Ichiro Sugae, Gumersindo Puche, and Kazan Tachimoto
Technical director:Maxi Gilbert
Technical coordinator: Javier Castrillón
Lighting technician: Javier Alegría
Light operator: Francisco Jesús Galán
Sound: Antonio Navarro
Stage technician: Helena Galindo
Stage manager: Nicolas Guy Michel Chevallier
Scenography builder: Alfonso Reverón Díaz
Logistics: Helena Pastor
Production: Gumersindo Puche
Production assistant: Jaime del Fresno
Co-production: Festival Temporada Alta, Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Wiener Festwochen | Free Republic of Vienna, Festival Grec, with the support of the Comunidad de Madrid
Special thanks: to the Instituto Cervantes in Tokyo and to the Noh actor from the Konparu Tsuano Yamai school
By the same creator
Vudú (3318), Blixen (TA23), Caridad (TA22), Terebrante (TA21), Una costilla sobre la mesa: Madre (TA19), Génesis 6, 6-7 (TA18), Tandy (TA14), Ping Pang Qiu (TA12), San Jerónimo (TA11), El año de Ricardo (TA10)
WORLD PREMIERE
