Conveying life through a charade

Karachi
The National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa), in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, Karachi, was on Friday host to a solo theatre performance by a seasoned artiste from Germany.
Even though it must all have been Latin to the average audience, for those who had a sharp imagination, it must have carried lots of meaning.
The show begins with the artiste, Anne-Kathrin Klatt, appearing on-stage, with only the lower half of the legs visible and the rest of the trunk covered with a big paper bag. It gives the effect of the young of a bird being hatched from an egg.
She is “hatched” and seems to be amazed and dazed at seeing the world in all its colours and vagaries.
This awe and wonder is displayed by frantic movements which, to some could look epileptic. However, at the same time, the movements are reflective of utter surprise and awe.
The movements are accompanied by really strange sound effects. However, the queer nature of those sound effects is supposed to reflect surprise and awe.
The 45-minute charade, even though hard to comprehend for those not too initiated in modern theatre, it is all the same a piece of mastery over theatrics.