Doctor:
What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.
Gentlewoman:
It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus
washing her hands: I have known her to continue in
this a quarter of an hour.
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
The work is inspired by the examination of historical and contemporary concepts of control concepts of control, security and cleanliness — individually and socially, as an engine of civilization, as a means of emancipation and oppression.
»REINHEIT« meticulously recontructs a seemingly endless, compulsive loop of hand-washing from the heyday or the Covid pandemic.
Oliver Zahn is a theater maker and performer. His work is always based on extensive research – ethnographic, archive-based and embodying self-experimentation.
TRIGGER WARNING
The performance contains scenes that address and depict mental illness and could therefore be disturbing for viewers.
