Luanda Casella

With her debut Short of Lying Luanda Casella immediately revealed herself to be a remarkable theatre maker with a unique writing style. She believes that words and stories will have the power to transform reality. But that is without taking into account commercial communications media in our post-truth era. In this theatrical TED talk, Casella magically pulls wool over the audience’s eyes.

Short of Lying is set in the world of online media and internet advertisements which since the 90s have been using storytelling to make as much profit as possible. Casella immerses us in a wondrous world full of misdirection and good-humouredly plays with the boundary between deceit and consciousness. An unmissable work by our in-house artist.