Between fiction and documentary, SKRIK transposes to the stage the sudden, searing flash of fragmented memories resurfacing. The piece delves into the complex reality of incestuous rape and its aftermath. Performed by six interpreters, it offers the audience a powerful experience: entering the mind of a woman, a survivor who is regaining her memory and rebuilding her identity.

Language: French and English
Subtitles: English and French

Hanging dresses
Suspended in time,
Incest
Amnesia
Traumatic amnesia
Different sizes, different ages
Some very old representing several generations of trauma.
SKRIK means the scream in Norwegian, as an echo to Munch’s painting The Scream.

As an echo to her performance SKRIK, thirty white dresses hanging high in the air. The dresses are disembodied chrysalises, the embodiment of traumatic dissociation. The bust represents a strong protective adult woman. She stands, she takes responsibility as an adult towards the child: “I believe you.” The fabric rolls carry handwritten words, standing on the edge between healing bandages that define a safe space and parchments that hold liberating voices. They are present to collect words around incest. From these gathered fragments, a poetic form is created and read out loud by Elisabeth.

REWRITING

I need Light and Yellow
Light and Yellow
Everywhere

I need dreams
I need strong dreams
Strong dreams are going to keep me alive
I want to stay ALIVE !

This is MY story !
I can breathe, I can breathe if I want to breathe
I can scream if I want to scream
I can move, I can dance, I can do whatever I want
This is MY story ! This is MY story !

I dance whenever I’m in the dark of my heart
I dance whenever I’m in the dark of my heart
My heart burns so much I can’t see it anymore it’s so burnt it’s gone black.
My heart is gone black, it’s burned it’s burned it’s burned I can’t see anything I’m dead I’m dead
Whenever I try to live I end up dying
Whenever I try to live I always end up dying
Tears falling down my eyes
I'll just let them fall tonight I'll just let them fall
Heart beating unevenly
Dreaming of the future!
What does it look like when I'm dreaming of the future
The future
No more tears,
No more tears,
No more tears !
Whatever comes comes !

Rewriting Rewriting rewriting I'm rewriting

This is This is
This is my heart
This is my heart beating in the Future

FREE
STEADY
GROUNDED
SAFE
UNCOMPROMISING
FREE
LIBERATED
OPEN - BRIGHT - GOLDEN HEART BEATING BEATING

If there's a heart beating, if there's a heart beating it means, it just means that I'm alive, it just means that I'm alive, I’m not dead, I’M ALIVE

I'M ALLLIIVVVVE !

ANDREA
BERNARD
EUGENIE
HENRIK

DEZOLATIONE

Paura
Darkness
Brain Heart Body
Wüt
Trauer
Tutto chio e bestiale
un hurlo senza voce que pero qualcuno sente

Again again unmuffle the scream
Scream the scream
Ritorna come un flashback il ricordo
Like a dream which makes you feel uneasy
Paura constanza
Orrore!
Anime pure che tistorano come a dire: non dimenticate per poter cambiare
La forza della bellezza che non fi
Purezza ferita