CARBON MONOXIDE

Monodrama Carbon Monoxide is a collage of monologues there were collected and written down by Aleksandra Listwan. It is inspired by the actress’s meetings with women who, at first glance (according to common social criteria), can be described as „strange”, to say the least. 

A clash of different stories, characters, their experiences and thoughts creates a picture of modern world with its contradictory standards, demands increased to the limits and tensions it creates. What is normal and what is not? What does culture expect of us – what does it give us and what does it impose on us as far as identity, gender, role, social function, appearance and sexuality are concerned? Is it possible to fulfill all the expectations? Is it possible that everyone may be excluded just like the monologues’ authors were while being treated as „abnormal”, „marginal”, „distorted”? Is exlusion the exception that proves the rule or a cultural standard? „Carbon Monoxide” will be looking for answers to these questions.