Graduation work Through the Looking-Glass (and what we found there)

GRADUATION 2019 | DRAMAFESTIVAL

We found the promotional photo-file at the top of this webpage floating around in desert-space, near the Helix-Nebula.
It dates from approximately 27.3 parsec before the Big Crunch and originated from the so called ‘Globe’; a long-lost planet that was inhabited by a species called uomo zapians.
These were supposed to be some kind of 3.5 dimensional creatures.
Together with the photo-file were some instructions in a strange uomo zapian tongue.

It said:

Through the Looking-Glass (and what we found there)

Masterproef Drama van Mats Vandroogenbroeck & Nona Demey Gallagher.
Van en met Mats Vandroogenbroeck, Nona Demey Gallagher en Timo Sterckx.
21 en 22 maart om 20u30 in CAMPO Nieuwpoort, Gent.

We were able to translate the fragment, but the contents remained enigmatic and mysterious.
We started to look for more old light near the space-place where we discovered the first photo-file.
We found another fragment:

(…) in die zin is Through the Looking-Glass (and what we found there) een echte must-see. Niet zozeer om het degelijke spel van de acteurs (de opkomst van Sterckx, de sterfscène van Gallagher en de schakels van Vandroogenbroeck zijn zeker het vernoemen waard) maar vooral om de visionaire kracht die uitgaat van het geheel; dat rare gevoel wanneer je in een déjà-vu lijkt te zijn beland en je niet weet of wat je ziet nu allemaal al eens gebeurd is, nog zal gebeuren, of afkomstig is uit een droom. Moest het niet aan Vandroogenbroeck hebben gelegen  – die omwille van een tekstuele black-out heel de vaart uit de voorstelling haalde – hadden ze van mij nog een ster extra gekregen. Dit ook omwille van (…)

They seem to be talking about some kind of artificial time-quake that took place at 8:30 pm, the 21st and 22th of March in 2019 (according to their calendar).

They call this type of time-quake a ‘play’; an hour and a half long state of mutually agreed déjà-vu in which Mats, Nona and Timo – so called ‘actors’– know everything they are gonna say and do, and how everything is going to come out in the end, for good or ill, when the curtains go up and the so called ‘first scene’ begins. Yet they have no choice but to behave as though the future were a mystery.

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