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Liina Magnea: What’s a Mob to a King (Plot-twist Redemption)

© Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė

When life is work, it is no longer work. It has become labor in the form of self-sacrifice, for the nation, the cause, the company. But the promises that were supposed to justify it are dissolving. For what exactly, nobody quite knows anymore. Only the sacrifice remains.

What's a Mob to a King (plot-twist redemption) traces how ideology enters the body and heroism unravels. In an era of new honesty, where injustices no longer need to be concealed, Liina Magnea asks what still seduces us. Because what seduces is always, in part, aesthetic. Even the villain. Perhaps especially him.

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Choreography, performance, text: Liina MagneaPerformance: Noah Rees, Konstantin WlochComposer, text: Hjörtur HjörleifssonLight, stage: Astrid K. NylanderCostume: Anna Philippa MüllerCostume assistant: Anna Melnikova

A production by Liina Magnea in co-production with Sophiensæle. Supported by The Swedish Art Council and Icelandic Art Center. Never Work – International Performance Festival is a festival by Sophiensæle, supported by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). Sophiensæle is supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.

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