I Do Remember Nothing
LARS HENNING
MONDAY 24 MARCH 2025 19.00 AT ATALANTE – TICKETS HERE
shared evening with ibodies "ASH"
Using T. S. Eliot’s landmark modernist poem The Waste Land (1922) as its central reference point, the performance I Do Remember Nothing weaves together a variety of literary threads (the Pāḷi Canon, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Homer, Shakespeare, the Old Testament, the Poetic Edda, Eliot, Cavafy, Beckett, Ibsen), as well as the voices of different, mostly unnamed characters.
Living through an era with ample apocalyptic omens of an imminent collapse of both the physical world (climate and ecosystem breakdown, increased nuclear threat) and the moral order (dereliction of international law and human rights treaties), I Do Remember Nothing explores what still seems to be the only hopeful strategy, namely one of passionate engagement in the world, despite the suffering that may ensue in the form of anger, despondency, perplexity, compulsion, and even madness.
In the face of the utterly depraved hybris of predatory capitalism and consumerism, exploitation, abuse of power, scapegoating and fear-mongering – the intoxicating and comforting venoms that we suckle from the Barbarian’s teat, I Do Remember Nothing finally posits that there might be real beauty and freedom for the human race. That beauty and freedom could be afforded to us in following the example of Ophelia, who is famously trapped in a ruthless power game (between King, Father, Lover, Brother), and only gains human agency through her surrender to a flower-garlanded madness and a riverine death.
Written and performed by Lars Henning
Choreographic consultant Kasper Ravnhøj
Sound design by Onni Reilin
Lars Henning trained as an actor at Drama Centre London (University of the Arts London) under the mentorship of especially Yat Malmgren. He performed in numerous productions nationally and internationally, before starting his directing and teaching career in 2000. Since then, he’s taught and directed around 50 theatre productions in Denmark, England, Scotland, Canada, Egypt, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
Kasper Ravnhøj is a choreographer, stunt performer, dancer, actor and teacher. He's the founder and artistic director of Mute Comp. Physical Theatre, and has won great acclaim both as a choreographer and dancer. His characteristic movement language carries an intense presence, an extreme flexibility and floating limbs that seem able to twist in any direction.
He is based in Copenhagen, DK, but he’s performed and taught extensively internationally.
RADIX is supported by The City of Gothenburg Arts and Cultural Affairs Committee and The Region Västra Götaland Cultural Affairs Committee