BURNOUT

Are you single? Do you read books, do yoga, call your therapist and despite all that, in comes Tuesday night and you can't help but feel like a non-recyclable yoghurt pot?

woman with a phone

BURNOUT

2023

Are you single? Do you read books, do yoga, call your therapist and despite all that, in comes Tuesday night and you can't help but feel like a non-recyclable yoghurt pot?
 
Well, you cannot expect rainbows and unicorns from BURNOUT. It's not a hundredth play about how fulfilling it is to be single. It's a play, which stems from the need to acknowledge that loneliness can get treacherous and ugly. It's a play about endless seeking and zero finding, about a fleet of sunken situationships and your fatigued index finger swiping through hundreds of bland faces on a dating app. It's a play about complete and absolute burnout from the never-ending wave of beginnings and premature endings. It's not a play about 21st century dating. It's a play about its aftermath.
 
Our original one-woman show about female loneliness, the toll of digitalised relationships, and our innermost need to be seen is soaked in millennial pink and sprinkled with banana yellow.
 
In 2023, the show was warmly welcomed by its Prague audiences. In 2024, we would like to present BURNOUT on international Fringe festivals and thus spread the word about the loneliness pandemic and the generational need for a digital detox. For that reason, BURNOUT was written to be a compact play. It happily fits its cast of 1, 16 monologues, and 5 costume changes onto a 3x2m carpet.

Creative Team

Written / Directed by: Maku
Set Design: Fibs Porto
Photography: Martin Večeřa
Poster Design: Dan Collins

Cast

FERN: Aneta Kölblová

Moments from the show

Living room moments

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