Performance

Performance, Harkeerat Mangat, Getting In

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The works of Harkeerat Mangat explore how meaning emerges over time. Getting In [Einstieg] is a new performance that deals with our dependence on others when it comes to understanding the truth about something that has happened.

Maria returns home after caring for her mother and finds that the access code to her building has been changed. Standing before the locked door, she must persuade her eccentric neighbours to let her in. Maria's language is unintelligible, so the audience must rely on four narrators, who speak different languages, to learn what is happening. As the night goes on, their accounts increasingly diverge and ultimately lead to four completely different fates for Maria.

Getting In asks the question: what happens when there is no single authoritative account?