Performance

ขออย่าให้…เธอกล่าว from The Manifestations of the No-Country

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By Sukanya Pheansri Jiwaphanchai, Kanyarat Yingsuwannachai, Pathipon (Miss Oat), Palita Sakulchaivanich, and Nicha Puranasamriddhi

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ขออย่าให้…เธอกล่าว From The Manifestations of the No-Country  is a contemporary theatre performance driven by women’s bodies through movement, dance, voice, multimedia, and performative practice. The work explores the relationship between the body, memory, motherhood, and the histories of womanhood within societies that continuously seek to regulate, discipline, and define women.

On stage, women’s bodies appear unapologetically: bodies worn down by life, bodies that have given birth, bodies made to carry guilt, bodies subjected to the gaze, and bodies that resist patriarchal ideals of beauty. Fatness, aging, vulnerability, and the traces of lived experience are not concealed but revealed as sites of knowledge, embodied memory, and resistance.

Contemporary dance functions as the primary language of the performance, investigating the tensions between obedience and defiance, between discipline and liberation. Through choreography, text, multimedia, and performative actions, the work moves between tenderness and violence, fragility and resilience; between trembling voices, interrupted voices, voices long rendered silent, and voices that continue to emerge from spaces never designed to accommodate them. Speaking, withholding speech, and being forbidden to speak become central dramaturgical gestures, revealing the stubborn force of survival and the persistence of women’s presence.

Please Don’t Let… Her Speak tells women’s stories through the body as a living archive of history, employing dance as a feminist practice that reclaims space for suppressed memories, lived experiences, and silenced voices. By allowing these histories to exist and move once again within the present, the performance asks a continuing question: What is a woman’s body? And what can a woman become?

Performance Schedule
11–13 & 18–20 September
Friday: 19:00 hrs.
Saturday–Sunday: 14:00 hrs.

Venue: Studio, 4th floor BACC

Duration: Approximately 90 minutes (no intermission)

Ticket Prices
General Admission: THB 600
Student Ticket: THB 500
(Available for first-degree undergraduate students aged 26 or under.)