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I DON'T KNOW / NO SÉ

Leonor Courtoisie
Lecture / work in progress
Wed 20.11.2024 15:00
KVS, Brussels
KVS TOP
Past event
20.11.2024
15:00 - 15:40
Past event

Two obsessions come together, suicide and stupidity, one after the other, like an inevitable, causal narrative. 

The grandson of a mortician who is now the town’s undertaker in the middle of a country. A couple who experiences the death of their child at the hands of joint forces and continues their life searching for a way to die. A journey to the ancestors and another to a future without words, the suicide of language, a hospital and a body, preparing the bodies, a pool 1.80 meters deep, someone learning to swim and to live and an elderly woman who pulls out her teeth, travels to the mountains and gets lost. Getting lost, having no idea, not knowing. Being. Being stupid.  

 

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LEONOR COURTOISIE is a writer and theater maker who integrates critical thinking into her creative practice. Her work Duermen a la hora de la siesta won Uruguay’s National Literature Prize in 2019. She published the novel Irse yendo(2021), the poetry collection Todas esas cosas siguen vivas (2020), and the play Corte de obsidiana (2017). Her texts have been translated into French and Portuguese. She has worked as a director and playwright, adapting novels by Alicia Migdal and Armonía Somers into stage productions like Muchachas de verano en días de marzo (Festival Temporada Alta, Sala Verdi, Montevideo, 2024) and Estudio para la mujer desnuda (Comedia Nacional, Montevideo, 2022).

 

 

Credits

ARTIST PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH PROXIMAMENTE festival residency 2024.