Thai artist Wichaya Artamat, a leading figure in Thailand’s new theater scene, continues his theatrical exploration of his country’s political history by examining how society remembers and obscures it through certain days on the calendar.
What if, for one evening, we shivered while listening to ghost stories? Hugely popular in Thailand, whether on the radio or YouTube, these stories also conceal a more political meaning… October, in particular, is a month haunted by the specters of mysteriously disappeared opponents and brutally suppressed protests. Working in semi-secrecy, Wichaya Artamat explores how a society remembers and conceals its history. The dead remember unfinished struggles and continue to protest, planting the seeds of a future revolt in people’s minds. Soon, even the theater and all its machinery begin to hum with strange presences. A shiver down the spine, anxiety gripping the heart, hairs rising on the back of the neck… drawing on the supernatural, Six Days in October (The Dead Still Riot) also presents itself as a sensory experience. With the Festival d'Automne
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