SOPA

PerformanceNela Fortunato

09 OctThu21:00

Building 7C

SOPA
Nela Fortunato

SOPA is a performance piece. A one-person show. An ode to peculiarity.

A succession of vignettes in which Iris unravels their thoughts. Through images, memories and dreams, Iris addresses the audience on what it is to be living outside the norm.
Iris opens up, a monstrously beautiful bird. They stomp and dance and tell stories. They are the question mark in an alphabet soup, a femme fatale soaked in a stew, a series of memories traveling from far away in a space rocket.

The piece uses physical theater and a queer, pop, distorted aesthetic in order to pose questions that subvert, trespass and repel the ideas of femininity/masculinity, binarism and gender roles.

SOPA is a cry, a broth in which we are all immersed, entangled. Where the absurd and the ridiculous find their way into rawness.

SOPA is a performative play with a unique journey: texts gathered during the pandemic lockdown, performed online & in English language for AFO NYC’s Saloon, resulting in a one-person play performed by an actor, Nicolás Depetre, in Buenos Aires, then touring Patagonia, Argentina, with the support of the City Council funding. Transformed later into a site specific exploration in Lala Spiti, Athens, with a diverse cast and original music, texts in Spanish, English and Greek. SOPA then evolved into the current version, performed by the author herself, which, with the audience’s help, will be able to debate and unfold once more.

It keeps mutating, it still cries and resignifies: BEING IN ORDER TO BE WHAT?

Iris: “There is a hole in the texture of things.
In the world I see through my mobile phone.
There is no way out,
and there is so much that needs to be done.
Hot food,
shelter,
cotton,
and nothing,
nothing that soothes me,
covers me,
saves me.
I should save myself.
If I wanted to.
If I could.”