S o n d e r / S t a s i s : Gloss
We refuse an impulse to put on-hold and opt instead to hold each other from afar, shifting our definitions of productivity and product, alongside precarious timelines and futures.
We refuse an impulse to put on-hold and opt instead to hold each other from afar, shifting our definitions of productivity and product, alongside precarious timelines and futures.
We were making a circus show. On a bus. About a bus. Transforming a bus.
I can’t ever think of an example of theatre without an audience, though. Even if it is just me sitting here reading or thinking to myself, as you may be with this now.
It starts when clearance is given. The house is opened. People begin to drift in.
Is it any different from anyone else? Is anyone even listening? The musician doesn’t know.
The auteur at the heart of her text yearns to close the gap between the art object and herself, the art star. At least, she wants the appearance of having forsaken aesthetic detachment. And we’re with her.
How might a theatre piece take advantage of four different languages conceived as musical instruments, each one with its own unique potential?
We know in this space that we are not discrete and separate, but fountains of flesh making and remaking ourselves through infinities of possibility...
Our theatre languages – not one, but many – will reflect the myriad visual, physical, social, musical and storytelling lives of our place and time, in the local vernaculars.
I welcome you. Go for a walk in the field. In the woods. Meadow. Desert. Street. Bring a roasted chicken dinner. Share it. All night there are sighs amongst us, a caress.