Two Strangers look on
– the Theory of Perversion (and the work of perverting must go on)
Disaffection I & II (a message, not!) from the Lives of the Saints series
Kate Sheppard lives as a man
– graffito, Condom Alley, Auckland, 9/3/9
Rabkin quotes Fish: theatre text, textuality and representation
Gerald Rabkin’s 1985 essay, “Is there a Text on This Stage? Theatre, authorship, interpretation,” opens with an epigraph from Beckett: [in Re:direction, op. cit., pp. 319-331]
The best possible play is one in which there are no actors, only text. I’m trying to find a way to
Tina Frantzen paints figures with light like Edward Gordon Craig
– Tina Frantzen, 2009
Theatre gains from representation a sense not available to mere art: A note on Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West
Premiering in 1992 in Minneapolis and thereafter, until 1994, presented in Madrid, London and Washington Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West, a performance by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, is theatre gaining from representation something which is not available to mere art. Coco Fusco reflects on the piece’s failure