The Last Toe
LI Ning •
Altar.Dried blood streams and snowSticking and unravellingMessy fragments of limbsDeep black appealsEscape into the realm of the lostThe toes of the statues of the gods are scatteredHacking the worldHalf-performed rituals hang in the airEchoing......Pleasure must give way to survivalHealth has become the supreme ruleSo pleasure must be sacrificed on the altarPeople have made a revolution in their circle of friendsAnd think they've succeededIt's not unlike what happens in the theatre.......* The last toe, meaning the little toe of the human foot, Derived from our relationship to the world:i.e. the relationship between the foot and the shoe.
CAST & CREW
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
LI Ning
Director
‘Because of the pandemic’ has become the premise of all discourse today. The role of the Big Other, having been fully utilised in this process, is not willing to leave the scene, and people have long adapted to it and become dependent and attached to it. Moreover, people have already adapted to it and are dependent on it and cling to it. What was once absurd has become everyday, and what was once despised is now the best place to be. About freedom, about values. In the post-epidemic era, it’s all rewritten. …… Aalto, the founder of the theatre of cruelty, examined the many plagues of history and concluded: ‘A disease of a psychological entity, not caused by a virus alone.’