Premier December 9 2010 at Black Box, Oslo!
In Animal Magnetism 3, we have arrived at the male hysteria. The female hysteria is more wellknown than the male version, but among famous people who distinguish themselves as hysterics are the French writer Gustave Flaubert. In Hitchcock’s movies Hysteria the male hysteria is portrayed through the lead character in the movie. Male hysteria is also often described as a result of the fast development of technologies and a male identity in crisis. One of our sources of inspiration for Animal Magnetism 3 is a patient of Sigmund Freud: der Wolfsmann Sergei Pankejeff. It was Freud who gave him the pseudonym ‘der Wolfsmann’, or Wolf Man because of a dream Pankejeff had had about wolfs. Pankjeff had nervous problems and felt like there “was a veil cutting him off from the world”. With this as a starting point, our search for the male hysteria has begun. It might involve fat-suits and suits to make the performers stereotypically equal.
