The Finnish-Egyptian artist Samira Elagoz is the Silver Lion of the 50th Biennale Teatro, who receives the award on 1 July at 12 at Ca ‘Giustinian in the Sala delle Colonne, immediately after having presented the national premiere to the public his Seek Bromance, on 30 June at 6 pm at the Teatro alle Tese of the Arsenale.
«I’ve been watching you/You’ve been hurting too/you give all your love/Nothing left to show…», that’s the beginning to a song by Tim Berg. None of this is to be seen in the play that Samira Elagoz will present within the Theatre Biennial.
Just like in December, when we first announced it, we will use the masculine. We have Samira’s permission, since she declares herself “transmasculine”. His consecration as an international performer date back to 2017 when his show Cock Cock… Who’s There? was awarded the Prix Jardin d’Europe. In a mix of documentary of personal history, theatrical narration and pure show, Samira tells his experience in a series of appointments with strangers found on different meeting platforms, investigating the themes of desire, intimacy and violence in the relationship between a man and a woman. While the images scroll through the screens, the recon- struction of a rape, she was victim of, takes place on stage, a real punch in the stomach: on stage a young woman, a video shows her face with saliva and sperm flowing from her mouth, looking at the audience.
Seek Bromance will be on stage at Teatro alle Tese on June 30th, a play focused on a single subject, Cade Moga, a trans-artist. It is a confession about the begin- ning of a relationship between two beings and the narration of the end of this relationship in a world over- whelmed by the pandemic fear. Not for the faint hearted.
