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By: Sebastian Glass
Date: 2nd Jul 08
Medium: Performance
Drink: Dandy shandy
What:
Interplay
Where:
Here (and, ultimately, onstage)
How much:
Nothin'
Image:
Design by Tin&Ed
Demystifying the creative process can be a dangerous thing. Sometimes it's nice to think artists are rarefied beings, periodically struck by bone-shaking bolts of inspiration, rather than slobs like the rest of us, makin' stuff in their underwear amongst toast crumbs and fallen armies of takeaway coffee cups. Yet the voyeuristic thrill of watching remains.
Interplay documents the creation of three new performance works as nine boys of varying vocations collaborate from far-flung locales. Some of them are high-strung and excitable. Some of them are bearded and serious. And most of them have never met. It's a postmodern process by which ‘collaboration' mostly happens via uploads and downloads, email and late-night telephone calls, rather than drunken sparring in a kitchen, Hamilton and Moyes style.
Over four months, morsel by morsel, the works unfold in a bracing confluence of ripped stitches, binned sketches, 3am freak-outs, extramarital dalliances and spontaneous combustion, only some of which will end up on stage. You might not see the creatives in their underwear but you'll see everything else.