CPPM Manifestal'24: SIDEBAR OF SHAME. Elo Järv

Author-director ELO JÄRV (EST)
Performers JENNIFER BAGG (AUS), KATIA SKYLAR (FIN/RUS), ELO JÄRV (EST)
Lighting, Video and Sound Designer RENE TOPOLEV (EST)
Scenographer KSENIA VERBEŠTŠUK (EST)
Costume Designers LIIS LAANISTO (EST), KATARIINA SEEPTER (EST)
Makeup Designer ANNABEL JANKE (EST)
Dramaturgical Consultant ROOS LISETTE PARMAS (EST)

Production CPPM Manifestal and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre

Supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and Viimsi Artium

Her dark brown hair with its natural waves 

perfectly framed her light blue eyes 

falling, as it did, onto shoulders

marked by the delicate outline of the bones beneath.

Imagine a committee that observes your every move…

“Sidebar of Shame”* is a physical, verbal and visual journey that examines the feeling of being watched. How does it make us behave? How do we perceive ourselves in this situation?

Her dark brown hair, blemished with a few grey strands, 

framed her pale blue eyes 

falling, as it did, onto shoulders 

that were too bony for the torso they adorned.

At which point do we start to become objects? At which point do we start to feel shame? 

This performative journey of shame attempts to shine light upon societal structures by playing with theatrical ones. And it of course asks that most important question: how many times in a minute is it possible to adjust one’s hair?

*The term ‘sidebar of shame’ is used for the strip of thumbnail pictures on the right hand side of the British news website Mail Online, featuring (typically female) celebrities and their moments of „shame“.

Languages used in the performance: English, Estonian, Russian