GOING (with Coming)
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A work by The Theatre of Mistakes
recreated (and updated) by The Relationship
Directed by Fiona Templeton
www.therelationship.org
September 2 - 13, 2008
chashama 217
217 East 42nd Street
New York, NY
A work by The Theatre of Mistakes
recreated (and updated) by The Relationship
Directed by Fiona Templeton
www.therelationship.org
September 2 - 13, 2008
chashama 217
217 East 42nd Street
New York, NY
The Relationship is an international performance and art group directed by Fiona Templeton. The performers in Going (with Coming) are Katie Brown, Javier Cardona, Adam Collignon, Stephanie Silver*, Julie Troost, and Chris Wendelken, supported by Scott Troost.
*courtesy Actors Equity
"A tiny narrative of leaving, played as a fugue. 5 performers. Audience on 4 sides. A cult work from the 70s."
GOING was highly formalized, game-structured, and tongue-in-cheek serious, as can be gathered from the script sample, with rehearsed mistakes and swoons, and other sabotages. For these performances, 2 of the 5 acts will be replaced by COMING.
The combination of GOING and COMING will contrast the exactness of the original (and its exact recreation) with its opposite. In COMING, each performer gets a shot at reinventing the piece within the same structure. In some ways the performance challenge will be to alter things completely, astonish and challenge the others, and then return to the stark original, like switching back and forth between color and black & white.
This project was created in residency at chashama 217 Theatre, and supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Fiona Templeton's time supported by Brunel University.
about The Theatre of Mistakes
The Theatre of Mistakes was a performance art group in London 1974-80. Its larger manifestation, The Ting, included artists from all disciplines such as Michael Nyman, Amikam Toren, Susan Hiller, etc. The core group was Anthony Howell, Fiona Templeton, Michael Greenall, Peter Stickland, Miranda Payne and Glenys Johnson. Influential on groups as diverse as Forced Entertainment, Blast Theory, The Raincoats, and Station House Opera. Venues included The Hayward Annual, Paris Biennial, Vienna Biennial, Paula Cooper Gallery, the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary and Hartley Wintney cricket green. The group's writings include The Manifesto of Mutual Art and Elements of Performance Art., which is being republished next year to coincide with a major retrospective in England of the group in the 70's and early 80s.
(As described in Roselee Goldberg's Performance, Gregory Battcock's Performance Art, Nick Kaye's Art into Theatre.)
