Thanasis Kritsakis | Discharge

A research project aiming to develop new forms of dramaturgy exploring sex and sexuality. From sexual rights to pornography, and from the repressed nature of the contemporary subject to sexology, the project intends to break through the barrier of shame to seek how discourses of sexual pleasure are produced and reproduced.

Axial question: Why does sex, in the minds of sexual subjects, always appear as a repressed act whose liberation promises a better life?

In a symbolic place, a heterotopia of pleasure, a group of disparate characters will meet to fulfill their repressed desires, their sexual fantasies. As the night wears on, the attendees engage, analyze, judge, drink, discuss, argue, smoke, pray, confess, fuck each other, watch and be watched, pervert and be perverted, reappropriate their lost pleasure, and desecrate. They perform a scenic movement from consciousness to delirium, unraveling the tangle of sexual neuroses of modern Western culture. They participate in a game of freedom in order to ‘eat’ each other, to reach an animal state, and to return to their unbearably human life.

Based on the philosophical and methodological perspective of Michel Foucault, and through artistic judgment and practice, the project aims to open new paths in both the field of post-dramatic theater and in our understanding of the discourse on sex today.