WASTED! tackles on the issue of waste accumulation and its role in climate change, often overlooked in public discourse. It seeks to address the crisis in inventive ways, intertwining fact and fiction, text and movement, present and future through a dramaturgy of the absurd. The piece explores the relationship between the human body and physical waste, exploring the emergence of narratives from the interactions with dry rubbish collected over a set period of time. These relationships have the potential to reveal deeply personal and intimate experiences, as well as to create entirely fictional stories. It combines playfulness with critical information, offering a ludicrous yet thought-provoking experience. Drawing on the notions of post-human, “becoming-with" and queer perspectives, it plays with a grotesque figure from the future who delivers the news: What if there’s no such thing as throwing away? What if the “out” has become “in”? In this new epoch, we have become the “rubbish land,” and a new species has emerged: the “human bin”. By exploring the interplay of fact and fiction the piece unpacks the power dynamics of waste disposal, addressing issues like consumerism, digitalisation, and the global imbalances between Europe and the Global South. Through absurdity and humour, WASTED! invites audiences to engage in transformative reflections on waste and its far-reaching consequences. The performance aims to spark deeper awareness of environmental issues and foster critical dialogue, while inviting audiences to engage in this reflections through laughter and absurdity.


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