Spanish radical artist Angélica Liddell and Japanese writer Yukio Mishima share their quest for a union of beauty, eroticism and death. Seppuku, also known as Harakiri, is the ritual suicide of the Samurai and the point from which Liddell’s latest work sets out. This reflection on death and suicide is born out of an extreme will to live; it is a ritual for the dead and the living, a farewell poem that unites pain and beauty. Suicide, says Liddell, is always an avant-garde act and contains a brutal aesthetic component. Liddell confronts death with lust and beauty, life with its finite nature: art as an expression of the desire for ecstasy! Together with a dancer and an actor from Japan who Liddell has worked with before, she pushes the boundaries in her most recent work: physically, mentally, artistically.
Direction, Text, Scenography, Costume Angélica Liddell With Alberto Alonso Martínez, Masanori Kikuzawa, Angélica Liddell, Gumersindo Puche, Kazan Tachimoto, Nonoka Kato / Ichiro Sugae Light design Javier Alegría Technical direction Maxi Gilbert Light operation Francisco Jesús Galán Sound Antonio Navarro Machinist Javier Castrillón Stage management Helena Galindo Set construction Alfonso Reverón Díaz Logistics Helena Pastor Production Gumersindo Puche Assistance Production Jaime Del Fresno
Production Compagnie Atra Bilis Teatro / Iaquinandi, S.L. Coproduction Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna, Festival Temporada Alta, Théâtre National de Strasbourg, Festival Grec, Odéon–Théâtre de l’Europe With the support of the community of Madrid
World premiere November 2025, Temporada Alta (Girona)
Special thanks to the Cervantes Institute Tokyo and Noh performer Tsuano Yamai,
as well as to the Spanish Embassy, which supports the performances in Vienna.
