Killjoy Quiz

A killjoy is somebody who deliberately spoils the pleasure of others. In Killjoy Quiz the spoilsport turns out to be someone who is ready to root out any form of violence, also when this is uncomfortable. With Luanda Casella the pleasant predictability of a television quiz gradually makes way for a much tougher thinking exercise.

Participants answer questions. Points are distributed. But what does winning a quiz mean ? You may know a lot about the world but that doesn't mean that you also know the complexity behind the facts. Killjoy Quiz disrupts the idea that you can score points on knowledge by staging a game in which learning how to enter into dialogue is the ultimate purpose. Words are supremely powerful and eloquence is a weapon. The sly multiple choice questions mercilessly reveal our prejudices.

Luanda Casella is a Brazilian writer and performer. She tries to save the art of storytelling from mediazation and damnation. By mixing rhetoric with irony, her work exposes constructions in language. She investigates unreliable stories in fiction and the daily streams of communication. Casella has been a guest in theatres and on festivals all over the world, such as Het Theaterfestival, Spielart (München), Kaserne (Basel) and the Edinburgh International Festival. With Short of Lying, her last solo performance, she won the Sabam writing prize at Theater aan Zee.  

“Eloquence and imagination : they are powerful, liberating weapons” (Filip Tielens, De Standaard)

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