Yiannis Kakleas

Samuel Beckett, Mercier and Camier

In Mercier and Camier, Beckett’s two protagonists try to see the unseeable and hear the unhearable; to speak in order to be silent, and vice versa. They journey without ever arriving, believe in order to be refuted, set out only to return; an endless wandering. With his latest piece, lasting 24 hours, Yiannis Kakleas creates a post-theatrical experience: an all-night vigil that ponders questions of faith and the search for meaning, of power and dependency, of reality and its self-delusions, an inquiry that haunts both his audiences and his performers.