Fruits, or The Decline of a Distant Memory is a neo-cabaret performance from the trenches of humanity about the fruitless attempts of finding love. Stuck in the midst of space and time three entities are searching for meaning.

There’s a smell of longing in the air and we’re falling through oblivion. Through a series vignettes, they navigate by morphing into various shapes. Electric and infantile flavours of sweet and bitter collapse.

Created and Produced by TAKDAJA

Performers and Text: Mimmi Bauer, Pat Dynowska, Michał Szpak
Stage Design: Helen Hebert‍ ‍
Light Design: Theodor Spiridon
Musical Composition: Jack Foran
Directed by Mimmi Bauer and Theodor Spiridon
Marketing Officer (2023): Jose Canseco

Reviews

“They challenge the status quo chest first, testing the limits and the very concept of a play to introduce ideas like naked existentialism, romantic disillusionment, unilateral desire, gender expectations, cultural demands, and the juxtaposition of perception and reality”.
– Cindy Marcolina for Broadway World U.K. (2023)

“It’s safe to say that TAKDAJA’s work sits comfortably in the realm of the abject – that which we eject but still cannot look away from, a dismembered limb floating in a vat of rancid fluid.”
– Jake Mace for Binge Fringe Magazine (2023)

“This hour-long piece (that would have been more suitably titled “what have I just watched?”) leaves audiences confused and dissatisfied.”
– Selina Begum for The Upcoming (2023)

“Tonight’s show was filmed, so hopefully, you will be able to see it in due course. I think it will have a very different feel in digital format (and you’ll probably see me in the audience, too)”
– Louise Penn for LouReviews (2023)

“Its nonsensical nature is uniquely neat and presents a disillusioned view of life that’s resounding of the modern societal crisis and feels the aftermath of the overwhelming effects of the world.”
– Cindy Marcolina for Broadway World U.K. (2019)

Performance History

28 February – 5 March 2023: VAULT Festival

24 April 2022: SPRING NEST by MYST Productions(film screening)

31 March – 2 April 2022: King’s Head Theatre(cancelled due to COVID-19)

18 – 19 February 2022: The Rosemary Branch Theatre

25 – 30 January 2022: VAULT Festival (cancelled due to COVID-19)

22 January 2020: The Glory

9 – 10 August 2019: Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (Camden Fringe)