STEREO AKT of Hungary performs “Etiquette” in Tricklock’s “Revolutions International Theatre Festival”

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Cover-up, forced compliance, freedom
How far do you let the inner voice go?

Created and performed by Martin Boross and Julia Jakubowska of Hungarian theatre group, STEREO AKT, in “Etiquette”:

“We are searching for perfection. Though there is no sense in perfection itself, unless you are
able to show it.”
The viewers arrive as guests to someone’s home but it all turns into an absurd lesson in common
courtesy. Or rather a round trip in the hidden, instinctive chambers of our brains. Through lust, gobbling, stomping and duels we’ll learn the appropriate way of anxiousness, behavior, compliance – while preserving the highest degree of political correctness and politeness!

We observe the two main characters, Martin Boross and Julia Jakubowska as if they were existing inside a terrarium. We follow the instructions via headphones of a mysterious voice, who helps us become like what we wish to be seen as, by others and by ourselves – as actors, as men and women, as humans.

However, the voice often leads the potential perfect humans astray…

“We always want something else than what is given. Or at least circumstances that are ideally composed in everyday life and “stage life” as well. With Martin Boross, STEREO Akt continuously challenges our expectations like this with great success in “Etikett.”

–(Gábor Csatádi, link)