Rea

The performance revolves around the mythological character of Rea and explores her inner world with voice, stones and movement. 

It delves into the concept of womanhood, installing a dialogue between greek myth and contemporaneity - in particular in relation to women’s conditions.

What is a woman's identity?

What does being a woman mean? And being a wife, and a mother?
If one identifies as a woman, what are her roles in society? Why is she doing what she is doing? How does she feel?

The use of stones questions the relationship between humans, nature and time /death & rebirth.

“Rea was a Titaness

Rea was a woman

Rea was a mother 
Rea was a wife
- Of Chronos, Time. 

Chronos swallowed all her children, one after
the other, the second they came out of her.

For fear of being overthrown, as the prophecy said. As Chronos did to his father.

Until

Rea said, on top of a mountain, exhausted, in shreds

Enough. 

Enough, Time, the sacrifice of my own flesh for your salvation has lasted way too long already.

She put a stone into the cloth where her last newborn, Zeus, was supposed to be: Chronos swallowed it. 

Treason, or justice?

Her name in Greek means flow and ease. 
In Latin, it also means guilty.” 

Creator & Performer: Camilla Barbera

General Support & Lightning Design: Jean-Charles Vallet
Lighting Design and Technician: Jean-Charles Vallet in collaboration with Toph Enany.
Video Credits Oscar Loeser
Photo Credits Ewelina Pigula

In collaboration with Arthaus Berlin.