When is the meaning lost? When is something futile? How important is criticism?
The performance ‘In Vain’ invites the audience to take the role of judge in a situation. At the same time, each of them becomes a shareholder. A shareholder in a seemingly futile perpetual energy. The spectators, around the performer, as witnesses but also as participants in the action, will look back on their own moments where they too repeatedly struggled to achieve something, regardless of the pressure and criticism they had around them. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. What role did people then play in their own environment? What effect would they have if there was no such criticism?
The performance in vain therefore invites the audience to participate in an effort with a positive or negative effect. An effort to achieve a goal, where the importance of this achievement differs from person to person and depends on circumstances and conditions.
