Susie Wang

In this dark, hilarious, and slightly disturbing play by the Norwegian group Susie Wang, horror erupts in a hotel lobby: a guest with a chained briefcase encounters a breastfeeding mother and a receptionist trying to put on a brave face. We’re in a tight situation where love, sex and family form closed circuits of vampiric exchange. Something eventually gives way, releasing a chain of ever tinier things, each smaller than the last, ending in Hope, the tiniest thing one has ever seen. The group’s origins date back to the 1990s, when some of them, as part of the performance collective Baktruppen, appeared at venues including Kampnagel, aiming to dismantle traditional theater. As Susie Wang they've taken a dramatic turn and are now making fiction-based theater with characters and plot, infused with horror elements and highly subversive meta-levels.