Betroffenheit (consternation, a state of shock, dismay) a coproduction by  Kidd Pivot Company and the Electric Company Theatre. Written by Jonathan Young, Choreographed and Directed by Crystal Pite.

Here Betroffenheit  indicates very quickly,  a state of trauma, set off by a personal crisis that the individual, a lone young man enclosed in a hospital room, has experienced but , cannot get out of his mind. In spite of the presence of a psychiatrist, and of  individuals who seem to want to help him, the grief and the personal tragedy have possessed him deeply and we see how he can never escape their consequences no matter how hard all those around him appear to be helping  him. …

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