Sehnsucht at UNM's Theatre X

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Sehnsucht is a funny and touching physical theatre performance with masks and live music. Two characters, dense and extreme, forced into a situation where their freedom of choice and action is severely compromised, are confronted with their wishes.

Two masks, archetypes of human beings, seen through a magnifying glass that reveals and deforms, that reveals because grotesquely deforms. We see them struggle between the need to desire and the awareness that their wish will never end because every match lasts only an instant. Empathy turns the simple awareness of sharing the same, universal fate, into an acceptable goal, and rescues all the unavoidable wretchedness.