Miss Alison Matthews A.E.Matthews@salford.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Performance
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 (Unpublished)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 |
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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 |
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