Absurdist and provocateur, Anakana Schofield pursues her investigation of Irish society and the human condition in Bina, a Humanist-Existentialist satire which exemplifies my idea of the purpose of art; to incite, provoke, and disturb.
Bina is a Pythian seeress, a Jester of King Lear, hilarious and wise, among a circus of Faulkneresque characters lost in a mad and nonsensical world wherein the gods have lost the plot, struggling to reclaim their agency and humanity.
An extension of Samuel Beckett’s Malone Trilogy, referential to Sartre’s Nausea and filled with Joycean language play and acts of literary prestidigitation which employ the tricks and devices of Italo Calvino and postmodernism, it is a haunting song of grief and negotiations with death which strangely exalts and empowers, beautiful and terrible as is our flawed humanity.