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The ballad of Isosceles at Sensored Festival, Contact Theatre, Manchester

Matthews, AE

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Abstract

Eleven performances over six hours as part of a large festival.


The Ballad of Isosceles is a one-to-one performance for two people at a time exploring voyeurism, the Lynchian iconography of the chanteuse, and the strange rhythms of vicarious pleasure. It is an origin myth about the birth of envy in a previously innocent world. Isosceles, born out of wedlock from infidelity, tells the story of how she came to be - even as she pins you to your seat as the moth to her flame.
The piece explores innovative dramaturgical strategies by putting Girard's (1996) theory of 'triangulation' into spatial relations - creating an affect of envy through a particular audience set-up. As such, the piece continues my research into immersive performance strategies and the ways in which the one-to-one exchange might reveal larger macro-relations of capital and desire.

Citation

Matthews, A. (2015). The ballad of Isosceles at Sensored Festival, Contact Theatre, Manchester. [Performance]. 25 June 2023. (Unpublished)

Exhibition Performance Type Performance
Start Date Jun 25, 2023
Acceptance Date Mar 11, 2015
Publication Date Jun 25, 2015
Deposit Date Dec 9, 2015
Related Public URLs http://www.creativetourist.com/articles/theatre/manchester/sensored-festival-at-contact-soundless-dancing-and-dining-in-the-dark/
http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/35694-recon-sensored/
Additional Information Funders : Contact Theatre