witten : 6 octobre 2006
This is happening in an auditorium. Italian theater. On stage there is a play. Classical, (Juliet and Romeo?), it has to be big. That the reference may be seen, seen, in fact, because one cannot hear it; the actors are performing, in costumes, and the text is not perceptible to one’s ear. Everything is taking place as if the sound was cut.
A blurry image, underexposed, of cheap quality is projected in the back of the stage, a visage, very close to the lens that seems to come from a cellular video camera.
In the auditorium, we hear the voice corresponding to the image, a conversation from a phone call that interferes with the scene, they sometimes match each one to another. The discourses – telephonic and theatrical- discord most of the time, ignoring each other. Auditors try to follow, although slightly disturbed:
In fact, some auditors are talking in the room, on the phone, whispering to pretend not being interfering with the play. Others, maybe, are touching shoulders, which would mean: « quiet…we are trying to follow, please ». The time runs and it is made clear that the image on scene is the one of the auditors that seem to think the show of their life becomes an urgency, against the show of the play, urgency that they share with all the auditorium unwittingly.
The conversation, in different places at the same time, in a coffee shop, in the street, in a quaint apartment, during the hole play and alimented by the speakers, is less and less disconnected…it is the story of this moment that is written on stage.
The auditors are not bounded to stay near the stage…they are also invited to visit the places from where one speaks to the inept auditors.
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