Festival GED - A Short History of Crying

a stand-up tragedy

A Short History of Crying is an investigation into the phenomenology of tears that touches upon the themes of memory, emigration and death.
Throughout history crying has been connected to cultural conceptions of gender, age and class, and perceived as a shared non-verbal language in which we communicate complex and often contradictory emotions. In Western cultures crying is generally considered an intimate and private act. Showing emotions in public has anti-social character, signifying one’s weakness or lack of restraint. Maybe a change is under way in this field.