SHORT OF LYING
In the form of a TED Talk, writer and performer Luanda Casela exposes the different mechanisms of deception.
MAKERS
Luanda Casella / NTGent
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PRACTICAL INFO
✔ English spoken
✔ Dutch surtitles
✔ Length: 75 min
✔ Trigger warnings: none
SYNOPSIS
‘Short of Lying’ is a narrative performance about deceit. More specifically, the piece deals with the power of stories to interpret and manipulate reality and shows us how narrative thinking has been appropriated by the communication media.
In the form of a TED Talk, Lua Casella focuses attention on the art of oratory and exposes the different mechanisms of deception, thus creating a playful tension between deception and awareness. The piece is situated in the discordant world of online publishing, which since the 1990s has appropriated narrative thinking and storytelling to serve neoliberal logic.
The most current version of the full promotext can be found on this page.
TOUR DATES
The most current version of the tour dates can be found on this page.
VIDEO
- Download the trailer of ‘Short of Lying’ here: https://vimeo.com/285737178
- The full captation of the performance is available upon request through benny.dhaeseleer@ntgent.be
PHOTOS
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PRESS QUOTES
✒ “Luanda Casella grabs our attention, then keeps us on the edge of our seats” - The Irish Times ****
BIO'S
Luanda Casella is a writer and performer trying to rescue the art of storytelling from its mediatized doomed destiny. Her research focuses broadly on the role of literature in the development of critical thinking; the ways in which individuals relate to narratives to create a sense of identity, to form their opinion of the world and ultimately protect themselves. By examining rhetorical concepts through humor, her work exposes language constructions, exploring unreliable narration in fiction and in everyday communicative processes. During the last few years, she has been studying 'the rhetoric of deception', investigating the use of storytelling in communication media, institutions, and politics.
Read Lua Casella's bio here.
CREDITS
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CONTACT
❔ Are you interested in programming this performance? Please contact Sophie Vanden Broeck, sales manager at NTGent:
✉: sophie.vanden.broeck@ntgent.be
☎: +32 485 80 38 43
❔ If you didn't find the promotional material you were looking for on this page, please contact Benny D'haeseleer, communications officer at NTGent at benny.dhaeseleer@ntgent.be
❔ For the technical rider or other technical questions, please contact patrick.martens@ntgent.be