- Theatre
SEXODUS
Disclaimer
The performance uses a strobe light, features explicit nudity, and explores themes of body image, self-criticism and distorted body perception.
These performances are try-outs.
An actress on the brink of forty battles the absurd pressure to forever look twenty-four. In this physical one-woman show, Naomi Velissariou transforms into a storm of female archetypes: a raw revenge fantasy against a system that thrives on female insecurity. What lies beyond the mask of perfection?
In SEXODUS, we see an actress at the threshold of her forties. She knows that in the Western world, she is expected to keep looking like a twenty-four-year-old until she’s far into her sixties. So, she adapts. Again. And again.
Her body is marked by centuries of aesthetic oppression. What starts as compliance turns into resistance. In an exhilarating revenge fantasy, she takes the weapons of the arts, the entertainment industry and social media into her own hands. Through fashion, live video and music, she challenges a global system that thrives on female insecurity, hoping to get a glimpse of what lies beyond.
SEXODUS offers an honest look into the female mind and shows how a woman’s body is being shaped, used and reclaimed.
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Naomi Velissariou
Credits
Concept, text, performance: Naomi Velissariou
Text, dramaturgy: Bregje Hofstede
Director: Nicole Beutler
Assistant director (intern): Dóra Dankó-Kiss
Assistant: Lindsy Dias
Sound design, composition: Jimi Zoet
Set, lighting, video: Marijn Alexander de Jong
Costume design: Ülkühan Akgül
Technical production: Thomas Lloyd
Sound and video operator: Bart Coenen
Lighting operator: Mart Hielema
Video stage manager (editing): Charlie Smeets
Production management: Seline Gosling & Daniel Valkenburgh
Costume care and surtitling operator: Merel Kamp
Marketing & communication: Naomi Lantveld & Kelly de Haan
Production: Theater Utrecht, URLAND, Nicole Beutler Projects, O