LEV I FRED MED DERES NERVER (LIVE IN PEACE WITH YOUR NERVES)

An abstract and satirical comment on the tendencies to diagnose rather than to fix

 

LEV I FRED MED DERES NERVER, Præsentationsforestilling, Aarhus Teater 2015 © Rumle Skafte

 

LEV I FRED MED DERES NERVER (LIVE IN PEACE WITH YOUR NERVES)

By Christina Wendelboe (DK)

Variable cast size and gender distribution

Comedy

Danish original text

”We learn to brush our teeth, to clean ourselves, to get vaccines and to make sure to get our check-ups for dangerous diseases. But no one teaches us how to live in peace with our nerves”.

Eight ‘nerve diseases’ are gathered to a nerve union. All fitted with an –more or less – unauthorized diagnosis (such as highly sensitive, mythomaniac, histrionic, hypochondriac, sadist, compulsive neurotic and fatalist) they’re being involved in a therapeutic game trying to mingle and to find a cure to their sufferings. Quickly this task turns out to be rather difficult as everybody participating are very self-centred and always at risk of getting a nervous breakdown.

 

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