A few words about the performance:

A father with dementia and his hysterical daughter are desperately trying to communicate—but in vain. Each, trapped within their own disorder, trembles internally, seeking personal redemption.

The daughter has devoted herself entirely to her father. She visits him daily, takes care of him, and holds full responsibility for his well-being. She has completely set her own life aside.

The story unfolds over the course of a single day—the day of the father’s emotional outburst. He no longer recognizes her. Fixated on a stopped clock, he repeats the same patterns, stubbornly refusing to face the truth. He denies his children, denies the work he once served, and denies his inability to care for himself.

Despite the daughter’s frantic attempts to break through to him, he constantly evades reality—or at least that’s how it seems to her confused mind.

Unable to cope with this new reality, she becomes lost. Incapable of managing her long-broken relationship with her father—and, most importantly, her relationship with herself—she spirals. She becomes confused and accusatory. At one point, she even questions her father’s dementia, terrorizing him and screaming: “I don’t believe you! You’re playing a game!”

Always trapped in the role of the victim, clinging to her past—a past deeply entangled with her father—she nostalgically triggers wild memories and drags him into a violent dance of sensations and delusions.

Communication is a lost cause. Mutual understanding is nonexistent. The ego of each character is so overpowering that neither can see past their own pain. Dementia and hysteria march forward, tightly intertwined, in sick, staggering steps—some to the left, some to the right.

There is no destination. Both of them drift wherever the wind blows.

An afternoon. A delirious day. And every next day is just like the one before—unchanging.

And yet, always through humor, always through laughter, always through that bittersweet mix of comedy and tragedy—one afternoon, father and daughter meet, and gaze at each other… with closed eyelids.

General Admission: €17
Reduced: €15 (Students, Unemployed, Persons with Disabilities)

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