Satan is taboo. The fallen angel is the symbol of evil par excellence. The supposedly ominous figure is still used today to enforce moral concepts. What is framed as evil and what is framed as good, however, cannot be determined so clearly. It is worth taking a closer look at evil and at those who deefine it as such. 
In SANE SATAN, the third and final part of IN PRAISE OF VULNERABILITY trilogy, Vittucci uses humour to examine the stories and images that warn us so vehemently about the devil. Like Maria in HATE ME, TENDER, who debunks the myth of the "hymen" as a warrior of vulnerability, and Eva in DOOM, who is able to free herself from an imposed value system thanks to curiosity, Teresa and her team in SANE SATAN search for a new, queer-feminist reading of this dazzling figure in our cultural history. Seductive, monstrous, and trapped in the prevailing structures: Satan has the potential to be an accompliance for all those who are devalued, excluded, and oppressed because of their otherness. This defiant power of the figure of Satan, who comes to light in their role as outsider, critic and, last but not least, as a gender ambiguous figure, paves the way for new perspectives on common moral concepts. 

CREDITS
Conception / Direction / Text / Performance: Teresa Vittucci
Performance: Alina Arshi
Dramaturgy / Text / Video: Benjamin Egger
Text Assistance: Melanie Jame Wolf
Dramaturgical Support: Lea Moro
Stage and light design: Anna Wohlgemuth
Light design and technical direction: Anahí Pérez
Choreographic and material assistance: Emma Beruchoz, Emmeliin Chemouny
Inventor: Gabriel Schneider
Music: Gil Schneider
Tailor: David Lammstrand
Partially developed with and special thanks to Henry Browne and Deborah Macauley
Production Management: Diana Paiva / high expectations
Diffusion: Jérôme Pique
Administration: Karin Erdmann

A production by OH DEAR! Zürich in co-production with Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Arsenic - Contemporary Performing Arts Center Lausanne, Tanzhaus Zürich, Charleroi danse DCCN, La briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Théâtre Saint-Gervaise Genève, Dampfzentrale Bern
Co-production in residency  Espaço do Tempo, La briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne (supported by the French ministry of Culture / DRAC IDF)

With the support of: RESO Dance Network Switzerland, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Pro Helvetia, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Prix Tremplin Leenaards / La Manufacture, Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA)

Special thanks to Belluard Bollwerk Festival Fribourg, Studio CUTE and Zürcher Theater Spektakel

INFO
Duration: 85 min
Language: Englisch