Following the success of "iUi # 01", the second edition of “iUi (iUi # 02: International Festival of Contemporary Theatre) was organized in February 2010 in Myanmar as the continuation of the process of promoting contemporary theatre and performance practice in Myanmar. This project was organized by Theatre of the disturbed and supported by Alliance Française de Rangoun and Goethe Institut. Using the similar project structure (2-day seminar, 5-day workshop, and 2-day performance presentation) from the previous edition, the project "iUi # 02" was also successfully organized with the attendance of theatre artists and performance practitioners from local and international communities.
The first edition of “iUi” (iUi # 01: International Festival of Contemporary Theatre and Performance Art) was launched in February 2008 in Myanmar. With the attendance of artists from local and international communities, the first international theatre and performance event in Burma was successfully held in Yangon from 2-10 February 2008. The project was organized by Theatre of the disturbed with generous support from Alliance Française de Rangoun and Arts Network Asia (Singapore), and with partial support from Asian Cultural Council (ACC).
During this event covering 2-day seminar; 5-day workshop on theatre and performance; and 2-day performance presentation by local and international artists, a meaningful cultural dialogue was successfully developed between Burmese and international art communities for the further development of contemporary theatre and performance practice as well as intercultural exchange in Myanmar.
THE VISIT
Lin Htet
Synopsis
One man finds himself somewhere among people like him who are not aware of the purpose
of their presence, and he has no choice but to live by his situation.
He has not any idea what he is doing and where he is going.
He doesn't know who he is and where he came from.
He tries to talk, smile, fight, integrate, run and survive.
He is seeing different people with same attitudes and same people with different attitudes.
He is forced to come and he is forced to go. But he simply doesn't know where.
Knowledge, love, kindness, religion seems meaningless to him sometimes.
He meets with two psychiatrists who shares their different and difficult points of view
about love, death and existence.
The things he sees on the way fascinate him as well as disgust him.
He encounters death and new born child.
He is forced to be helpless. And also he is forced to help himself and others.
He is forced by himself to commit suicide and at the same time he is stopped by himself.
He is confused by himself.
He is lost by his own existence.
(This play is based on the real experiences of daily life of absurdity, and dedicated to whoever
shares the same experiences with the playwright.)