Marie Toepfer

Shadows/ Cold As Hell



"HOw Bad Is the Human Being. How bad is Ourself.."


..a performance about the dealing with guilt, and about how       we do behave..


To deal with darkness, fear and anger is something not everyone does. Everyone knows that bad things do happen, but so many just look away. Is it the evil side of some humans, which is destroying our living earth? Is it the guilt of some dictatorial leaders who are controling the world? Or is it us the people, who forget to to think and to speak up every day. By forgetting all the good we are given in life, we tend to act so different, as we actually would do. What is it, that makes us act so badly. Who is it, who makes us behave... 



...  as if there would be a contrary alter ego of the human being we see in  "cold as hell" an actual representation of the opposite of a good man.  We see a waking devil, dealing with his guilt. 

In contrast to the "normal" devil tho, the archaic symbol of all "bad", this version of the lord of the darknes shows a very vunerable, human side.

He is asking himself and the world all these questions by waking affter a trial, in which he had to destroy all bad he created before.

As humans are scared of their own "dark" side, which makes them behave bad, the devil is in his performance immensely scared of his light, his human, feeling parts and tries to hide them away. The way he is handeling his own fear is suppose to make people think, about their own (wrong) decisions and actions that made people hurt.

 

To look at own guilt within a mess of feelings, is something that has to be learned, for that reason it´s interesting to watch the hurt devil to find his duty in his pain. By reflecting himself and his actions, his decision he makes it to get rid of his guilt and inspires who´s watching to reflect and to think about actions in his/her* own life. 


"Are you aware in every second, that every decision of you leads   to other decisions and actions, to new thoughts, new words, new feels?"


"are you aware, that every action you take is leading to a feel?"




"..and in the end it´s all about the way, that you decide to be.."