Falling Heads: The True Story of the Massacre at Oracle Cliffs

Estranged twins: Tomasz and Steph, take opposite sides of two warring tribes. One tribe fights for the supremacy of mind over body, fights for their belief… to the death. In a Brecht/Poor Theatre style, Falling Heads examines history mistold as a tool of the state. Does anyone really win when truth is the cost? Synopsis: Falling Heads is a co-devised theatre performance arising from Akutagawa Ryunosuke's 1917 wartime story. The performance follows two tribes with common roots, the People of the Sunflowers who colonise the lands of the People of the Wild Boars. In a fabled Brecht/Poor Theatre style, the story centres on estranged twin siblings: Steph, a Sunflower regime sympathiser and her twin brother Tomasz, a poet dissident of the Wild Boars. In embodied scores, dialogue, sculptural battlefield reportage and folk acapella, the Sunflower authoritarian ideology of Cartesian 'pure thought' overcomes the Wild Boar sensory experience of the world. The oracle foretells the split, the Sunflower captain conducts conversion therapy, the shopkeeper runs resistance, the twins meet in death, the Sunflowers cover ancient graves—ultimately, the Reporter asks why any history should not be questioned.​​​​​​​ *Tegnsprog tilgængelig matinee af 6. November