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Quick! Must-see experimental theatre
The Guardian has 2 pieces today on Trilogy - a review and a feature- " Nic Green's three-part interactive arts project investigating what it means to be a woman"
For the un-informed - and admittedly I am only informed because I was sitting in a Doctor's waiting room with little else left to read - " This is not a dry academic feminist treatise: it is a joyous piece of accessible, experimental theatre so disarmingly direct and passionate it makes you want to join the dance"
Pesonally, I think I might decline the dance as everyone onstage appears to be a) naked and b) a woman
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/jan/13/trilogy-review
Other highlights are ".....Laura Bradshaw has a live telephone call with her mother; another woman remembers her gran; and in the piece's extraordinary central section the company create an intricate chessboard of movement set to extracts from the film Town Bloody Hall, the 1971 New York debate about women's lib chaired by Norman Mailer." ....Actually, by now, I am now wandering about joining that dance...
In the illuminating interview with its creator it is interesting to learn that "...she recently moved into a house in east Ayrshire with her partner, theatre-maker Peter McMaster, two members of the Trilogy cast, and an environmental activist, to attempt a sustainable way of life: digging discarded wood out of skips for heating, sourcing food locally and so on. What fascinates her is the inter- relatedness of social problems..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/jan/13/trilogy-nic-green
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You have to see the slide show
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/gallery/2010/jan/14/nic-green-trilogy-th...
Don't bother, anyone.
There's no muff.
?
actually theres a fair bit...
Not the stage-show, Tim.
The Grauniad slide-show.
The point being......
Its all muff mate! :)
Excellent stuff
It's about time someone gave Spearmint Rhino a run for their money.
You have just made me...
snort.
+ arrow from me.
I assumed this was a feminist subversion of ...
... the final frame of Full Monty?
So feminism
is cavorting naked on stage is it? But strippers are sexist? Is it acceptable to be nude in front of an audience as long as it involves movement straight out of a 6th form drama class?
Is this article a joke from pseud's corner?
Seems real
..but I agree its almost beyond parody
Hmmm...
springs to mind...
Reading that just puts me in mind of
this:
HA! Beat you by two minutes
(blows smoke off typing fingers)
That's extraordinary!
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
"experimental theatre!"
only the Guardian seems to understand it. Most people just see boobs and pretention. Avant garde dance is a definite no-no. If I wanted to see boobs I would. I don't want to be bored when doing it though.
Legz Akimbo, that other group of wide acclaim...
Someone call Private Eye
Who goes to see this type of wank?
If the Vagina Monologues weren't enough...
To quote from the blurb...
..."Though it features a high quota of bare breasts and buttocks, there is in fact nothing sexual about Trilogy's naked dance sequences."
You don't say.
Do you think they will be appearing at
the Edinburgh Minge? (I'm really, really sorry!)
Experimental theatre
my arse!
Sabbath
Albert Edward's three-part interactive arts project investigating what it means to be a member of Black Sabbath.
"This is not a dry academic treatise about Black Sabbath: it is a joyous piece of accessible, experimental theatre so disarmingly direct and passionate it makes you want to chop off the tips of your fingers and bite the head off a live bat by mistake."
Other highlights are ".....Geezer Butler says "oi-right mayt?" to his dad; another member tries to remember where the tour bus is parked; and in the piece's extraordinary central section Tony Iommi invents a new kind of riff, but then forgets it."
Puts the mental in experimental...
... I once saw Puppetry Of The Penis. As a piece of experimental theatre it did lack the sorely needed interactive element, but it certainly did explore what it means to be a man while bravely focussing on the, seldom appreciated in the world of the avant garde, joyful aspect of male sexuality as opposed to its dark side. I also recall it climaxing (sorry) with a skateboard, a large fan and an improvised sail which provoked a newly found deep appreciation in this reviewer for the adaptability of the male form.
Plus I can now just about do "the hamburger" when in the shower.