Ars Moriendi – The Art of Dying
Ars Moriendi – The Art of Dying – a performance piece which rests on a Medieval literary work describing how people must learn to face approaching death with dignity. We live in another age nowadays, but death has not changed. Spleen. The Horror. We are all going to die and life is just a parenthesis. Life is born dead.
Teater ONT shoulders the grim task of encapsulating this 600-year-old book. To the end. A performance which is an investigation, which is a preparation, which is a comfort for all the dying living. Comfort can be a joint act of recrimination and a happening: the audience can be the artist and the artist can lie on a divan. It is time to live life to the full.