our private lives | bedroom

The All Greeks Festival, organised by NTGent from the 1st of May until the 23rd of June at various locations in Ghent, presents all 32 surviving Greek tragedies in different forms. 'Our private lives | bedroom' is Yves Degryse/BERLIN's contribution to the festival together with Barbara Raes/Beyond the Spoken. For this performance, they are collaborating on an alternative version of Agamemnon's tragedy. The story will be projected on an apartment building at Machinist Park from sunset till sunrise. BERLIN will then pass the torch to Collective HINTER, which will perform its version of Offerplengsters, which is the second part of Aischylos' Oresteia, at the Westerbegraafplaats.

In the first part of Agamemnon, Clytaimnestra kills her husband. Their son Orestes does not get the chance to pay his father a last salute. In the facade scene, however, a farewell ritual follows Agamemnon's death. Mother, son, sister and uncle stand face to face in the bedroom where Agamemnon's body is laid. The viewer silently witnesses the washing, embalming, waking and recitation, but feels that behind every gesture is a pitch-black hole full of revenge. Although not a tear is being shed, the tragedy is creeping everywhere.