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A woman who is being pursued arrives in a small village. The Priest, the Mad Man, Sifis, the Teacher, and the Gossiper appear terrified, through their cries and deafening whispers, before the “public danger” posed by the stranger. Years pass. A young shepherd learns to walk a tightrope. The village is afraid. The blessing of being able to strike a balance on a stretched rope, high above cliffs and against raging winds, seems a sin to those who are easily pushed around, stumbling breathless on the ground. The ability to gaze like a vampire, both here and there, at the living and the dead, at strangers and your own people, at the just and the unjust, comes at a price: exile.

What perceptions of justice arise from folk tradition, and how have they endured to this day? What shame does the unknown bear? What is just, what is unjust, and what lies between them? Is the desire for justice linked to humanity’s eternal longing for happiness? This performance features a musical dialogue among words, verses, traditions, and fairy tales from this land and its history.