Brian Getnick
Wild Boar Costume The Actress demands her salary The stage, actors, musicians Potted palm and projection the Rehearsed audience convenes The Actor appeals to the Gentlemen's Gentlemen the unrehearsed audience boos and jeers Actress in the substage, potted palm and chandelier converse the Actress performs dangerous puppet show Noe and I setting it all up Chicago rehearsal 1 Chandelier The Actress takes a bow of course...
The Gentlemen's Gentlemen
The Gentlemen's Gentlemen is a play about an actress discovering the murderous intentions of an audience. She tries to warn the rest of the cast but too late! Fortunately a Wild Boar intervenes.
Footage we took of the play every time we rehearsed it (in New York, Chicago and Ghent) was projected in overlapping sequences during the play. Sometimes, the footage predicted action on stage, sometimes it repeated something from four years ago (yes, we've been working on it for that long) When the play was not going on, Noe and I would arrange the sets (platforms, plants, costumes) as an installation haunted
by the the projections of past performances. We described it in the play bill as Stanley Kubrik's "The Shining" meets Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper. Thanks to Croxhapox and all in Ghent Belgium.

watch the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v


photos on this page, Marc Coene, Marc Declerk, and Liz Nielsen
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