Det Frie Felts Festival

Please Hold
Megaland Theatre (DK)

Premiering at Selected Works Festival 2025.

Please Hold is an exploration of the aesthetics of the formal and its intimate relation to the private through choreography. The work challenges the false dichotomy between the public and the private, as formal interactions often are tied to intense emotions and taboos. Inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Trial, the performance demonstrates how the formal aesthetics of authority—through clothing, room design, or the graphic layout of a letter—can be so intimidating that its mere signal value is enough to induce compliance. The bodies on stage shift between being perceived as human, “citizen,” figure, object, subject, as well as between being seen as authority or subordinate. 

ABOUT MEGALAND THEATRE
MEGALAND is a newly started theatre production company with Karoline Clasen Holland as the artistic director. Megaland will produce original performing arts work for the theatre stage. Please Hold is the first production by the company. It was initiated at a residency at HAUT with a public in-process work sharing at Teaterøen in Copenhagen in nov. 2023.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CURATORIAL BACKGROUND FROM THE CURATORIAL TEAM OF SELECTED WORKS FESTIVAL 2025:
"The transformation of the familiar office environment into a metaphorical battlefield, where power and control are subtly and thought-provokingly challenged."

ARTIST TALK AFTER THE PERFORMANCE
Megaland Theatre in conversation with Tova Gerge (SE) - January 17th, '25 at 8:45 PM, Aveny-T, Store scene
Tova Gerge works with text and performance. Has two MAs, one in Dramaturgy from Stockholm University of the Arts and another in Performing Arts from Paris 8. Interested in themes like power, body politics and subversive intimacy.