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Théatre National > Studio
20 November
Text and staging of Lars Norén
With : Anne Tismer
Belgium-Sweden-Germany
One 20 November, in the small German town of Emsdetten, Sebastian Bosse burst into his former high school armed to the teeth and launched a cold-blooded attack on his former fellow students and teachers. After this assault, he turned his gun on himself. In the lead-up to this gruesome act, somewhere between contemplation and premeditation, between anger and abandonment, the young man kept a written log of his state of mind, sense of drift and the bitterness of a life crushed by the weight of mockery: “The only thing that school drummed into me is that I’m a loser. I intimidate people. You used to mock me and now I’m simply doing the same thing to you. It’s just that my sense of humour’s different from yours.” From the pages of this intimate diary, the full extent of the folly of modern-day society bursts out, revealing the destruction of a tormented era where our bearings have been well and truly lost, and meaning is searched for desperately amid the blackness. In this single intense scene, Lars Norén probes the workings of an injured spirit and Anne Tismer confronts the audience with a direct and icy gaze.
Text and staging : Lars Norén | With: Anne Tismer | Technical direction: Joël Bosmans | Coproduction : Festival de Liège, Théâtre National/Brussels