Spanish radical artist Angélica Liddell and Japanese writer Autor Yukio Mishima share their quest for a fusion of beauty, eroticism and death. Seppuku, also known as harakiri, is the ritualistic suicide of the Samurai and the point from which Liddell’s most recent work sets out. This reflection on death and suicide is born out of an extreme will to live. It is a farewell poem that unites pain and beauty. With a humorous touch, Liddell sets the performance apparatus in motion in order to liberate it from its role as entertainer and the moralising weight it has to bear, reverting to the age-old experience of theatre as ritual.
The first part of SEPPUKU takes place off stage – it is an appeal, an open call: ‘We ask for the garments of the dead; to receive and adore them.‘ What follows is a ritual for the dead and the living on stage. Together with performers from Japan who have long been companions of Liddell, she confronts death with lust and beauty, and life with its finite nature. Art as an expression of the desire for ecstasy.

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The company wishes to express its deepest gratitude to all those who contributed to this work by offering garments belonging to their loved ones. We also thank them for their immense generosity in sharing with us their most cherished memories. Thank you.
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