Be My Superstar

MUSIC THEATRE

One glass box. Big.
People in an open space. Dancing.
The background: galvanizing beats.
No stage, no chairs,…
Awkward inconvenience?

The interactive opera Be My Superstar is a collaboration between director Alexandra Lacroix and composer Šimon Voseček. The performance — for everyone above 14 — is based on Yann Verburgh’s H.S. tragédies ordinaires, a touching text about bullying. Sooner or later, from nearby or at a distance, it affects young and old.

The omnipresence of social media, in time as well as in space, hardly leaves any room for escape. Lacroix and Voseček translate everyday harassment in word, image and music thus confronting us with the banality of the violence we are all capable of.
Where does violence originate? Where does it feed? Where does it emerge ? How long do we keep on watching or enduring before taking action? Spectator and performer, bully and victim, all seem interchangeable in a powerful, physical show that leaves traces.