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We cordially invite you to visit Psilicone Theatre ( Lithuania) in the presence artists Auksė Petrulienė and Jan Maksimovič, saxophone at The International Library ( Odengatan  61 D, 22 September at 1.00 p.m.)                                               The performance is based on O. Wilde’s fairy tale ‘The Fisherman and His Soul”, which arguably is the most difficult of writer’s fairy tales because of its confusing mystical conception of body and soul.

A young fisherman falls for a mermaid, but in order to join her in the depths of the sea he has to lose his immortal soul. He sets off to learn the secret ritual he must perform to free his soul from his body. Finally he sends the soul away and joins his mermaid under the sea. But every year soul comes back, tempts fisherman wishing to move into his heart.

Fascinating and moving love story turns to the struggle between Soul and Heart for control over the Fisherman’s body. “Reject Your Soul” is a convincing visualization of the psychic landscape where beauty and brutality, pleasure and death, exist alongside one another. There are two musical versions of „Reject Your Soul“.

http://www.aukse.lt/reject_your_soul.html

Texts: Lithuanian, Swedish and English, free admission

Supported by the Ministry of Culture of theRepublicofLithuania, the Lithuanian Embassy inStockholmand the International Library inStockholm

Psilicone theatre actors are miniature silicone puppets, whose performance becomes visible as a large and colourful video projection created live.
A performance of "Psilicone Theatre" is a public video play with silicone characters, special image effects, texts, and personal objects.
The action is supported and accompanied by live music.
Silicone puppets are resilient and indestructible. Bent, stretched, pulled, pressed, immersed in various liquids and paints, they demonstrate resilience and can become an example of survival in the poisonous daily life.
That is how the physical characteristics of puppets determined the social themes addressed by the "Psilicone Theatre".
From 2005, "Psilicone Theatre" holds its performances in spaces untouched by art (typical courtyards of residential blocks, swimming pools of sport clubs) and traditional stages, trying by all means to meet as many untypical spectators as possible, to get to know their demands and offer them both contemporary art and an antidote for the problems tormenting society.