THE LAND OF WANTING MORE

THE LAND OF WANTING MORE
– the electro version –

The performance The Land of Wanting More returns to PLYFA in January 2026 in its new version: with live electronic music, a pulsating body, and an even more liberated approach to female sexuality.

After its sold-out presentation at PLYFA last year, and its subsequent transformation into a short film — screened at international festivals such as the Beijing International Short Film Festival, Filmfest Düsseldorf, Rome Independent Film Festival, Balkans Beyond Borders, among others — the work returns to the stage as an experiential and continuously evolving experience.

The Land of Wanting More is an artistic research project on the decriminalisation of female sexuality, desire, need, and memory. The work draws material from personal narratives, improvisations, films, and theoretical references, while its dramaturgy is composed as a mosaic of speech, movement, sound, and image. The audience is invited into a landscape where narration is fluid and desire is not presented as a stereotype, but as a political and existential act.

In this new version of the performance, theatricality is transformed, taking on more “concert-like” features. The live electronic music composition by Stratos Sterianos, as an active body of the performance, creates a space where intensity, sound, body, and desire merge.

The performance raises questions around exposure, trauma, pleasure, violence, and the power of self-determination. Female sexuality is presented not as a “subject,” but as a field of experience, conflict, and emancipation.

A celebration of desire, but also a deep dive into its dark, contradictory, and fragile zones.

(Warning: the performance contains references to and descriptions of sexual violence.)

Duration: 55 minutes