The Television's Lady - Experimental Theatre Performance

The Television's Lady is the first part of the Five Plays Series, lasting 38 minutes, presented by The Unified Theatre from Tunisia. This experimental performance investigates how the television screen acts as a hypnotic tool causing depersonalization, blurring reality and virtual worlds. The story follows a lonely woman who disappears into her giant television, losing her language, face, and identity. Characters including a virtual anchor, a controlling man-eye, and a rock and roll dancer appear as she enters a virtual world, receives an "identity drug" injection, and is ultimately shot by a virtual bullet before being wrapped in a white robe. The show is based on "cine-mimemes," spontaneous and universal gestural signs, blending magical realism, dirty realism, surrealism, meta-realism, and abstract-poetic elements to create dream-like dimensions. Created by Tunisian artists Sadok Aidan and Abderrahmane Cherif, The Unified Theatre rejects verbal and academic formalism, focusing on the actor's body as the main narrative instrument. The performance is suitable for audiences regardless of language proficiency due to its non-verbal storytelling approach.