RESIDENCY:
Cenacolo Secondo (The second Last Supper)
A showing of a creative development process undertaken in residence at
the Performance Space
VENUE:
Saturday 22nd April 2000, Performance Space, Sydney.
PROGRAM NOTES:
Milan, Italy, Passover 2033:
A perfectly stage-managed corporate event beneath
the gaze of da Vinci’s Cenacolo begins unravelling
early when due to an error in the Italian postal system
the invitations to the Apostles were sent to Australians.
Both Judas and Jesus, the guy with the script,
are notably absent.
Treachery lurks in the wings.
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Of concern in The second Last Supper is, among other things,
the question of politics, and the ability of performance
to represent this. The notion of a ‘political theatre’ has
become associated with performance that is often depressingly
didactic and naïvely simplistic. This need not necessarily
be the case. Is it not possible that performance can be
simultaneously aesthetically engaging and politically driven,
can represent and speak of the experience of living here
now, in this place, in this world? We aim to create a work
that is pleasurable to the spectator and communicates effectively
a real experience by real people in a real world (a political
act- the personal is still political. We haven’t
forgotten this.)
All that said, I admit that we have become a trifle distracted
from this purpose by our own personal obsessions, by the
food and certainly by the wine. But aren’t these
the places one hides when one is disenfranchised by those
who run the world?
In this show we eat, drink, and together wait for the
end of the world. That’s fun too.
And so this is what we came up with. Enjoy, and make sure
you have a drink.
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PRODUCTION
CREDITS:
Devised
and performed by:
Stephen Klinder
Chris Ryan
Yana Taylor
Rohan Thatcher
Beck Wilson
David Williams
With special assistance from:
Mark Byrne
Kate Golla |
