Monday, 30 March 2009

The flood

On Thursday last week, the 26th of March, I went to see the Spring Show of the MA in Text and Performance Studies students at the RADA / King's College London. The show was titled "The Beginning".

The second part of it, called "The Flood", was most interesting and most daring. As they say in their leaflet:
This is a threefold attempt to respond to the overflow we are experiencing in our daily lives. From within the ubiquitous flood of images, sounds and products, we ask: Where is the line between sexual pleasure and sexual automatism? Do we distinguish between our real and our digital selves, between us and our avatars? Can we still tell play from violence?

At one point all the eight performers were nearly naked, on top of each other, around each other and between each other in a constant flux of apparent pleasure, while the "random" noises of the soundtrack suddenly let us pick up the all too familiar "The next station is King's Cross St. Pancras".

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