Someone has to take out the garbage
The performance takes place on a simple cabaret stage. The performer is wearing a pregnant belly made out of […]
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Performance strategies for more-than-human audiences
I. humiliation Move continuously to humiliate yourself. This can be done as a solo, duo, or group practice. Consider the […]
Time lost along the way: Gone or Lost?
Let’s imagine a duration without regular pattern. Nothing in it is recognizable, nothing ever recurs. It is just a duration […]
Crankie
The audience waits in dim light. They hear the sound of paper fluttering, sliding, and crinkling, before they see […]
the theatre that I do not wish to imagine but wish to have
The theatre that must exist is ugly and unsatisfying, much of the time. It is defined by failed efforts and a bizarre-bordering-on-pathological determination to return to the scene of the crime (in this scenario, artists are the criminals; art is the bullet; guess who the victims are?).
performance score built with undated performance notes
sharing rhythm creates a political question about who determines rhythm and when trio in unison, with the possibility of becoming either backup dancers or soloists open-ended and absurdist and nonsensical shame as part of gaze
feast
It is raw, it is real, it is happening with you in the room and can only be experienced in the “here and now.” It is open to a multiplicity of heres and nows depending on the realities, perceptions, localities... of those present.
WEST END EATS ITSELF IN GAY PC SNOWFLAKE BLOODBATH SHOCKER
Eddie Redmayne has gouged out his own eyes on the steps of the National Theatre after having come under fire from disability activists protesting his plans to play Lear. His long-anticipated return to the stage looks set to break box office records. Kevin Spacey makes dazzling Old Vic comeback starring in play about his own downfall.
ingat (to take care)
that moment before something is about to happen where anything is still possible in between this is where you are stuck
The Age of Duse
Duse’s superpower: her capacity to disappear, leaving only her plaster hands as evidence that she was a material presence in the world. Disappearance. Reproduction. She knew the theatrical drill.