The Triumph of Time and Truth
theatre performance
2019
Trailer
“Time is supreme, Time is a mighty power, whom wisest mortals will
adore.." With these words begins Handel's famous oratorio. The experience offered for the audience creates a situation in which, forgetting about all respect to allmighty Time, we engage into a direct battle with it. During this performance, the participants perform a kind of oratorio, according to the acting instructions they are provided (there are about 100+ instructions or rather micro-plays that participants are performing randomly in a round-robin manner). The instructions contain either texts and the guides on how to "perform" them, or descriptions of simple performing tasks.
That allows for a variable degree of creative freedom and does not require training or preliminary rehearsals of any kind. The participants become the actors and the audience of the performance at the same time. The resulting polyphony, in which everyone's own internal dialogue with her or his personal perception of time begins to sound louder and louder.
adore.." With these words begins Handel's famous oratorio. The experience offered for the audience creates a situation in which, forgetting about all respect to allmighty Time, we engage into a direct battle with it. During this performance, the participants perform a kind of oratorio, according to the acting instructions they are provided (there are about 100+ instructions or rather micro-plays that participants are performing randomly in a round-robin manner). The instructions contain either texts and the guides on how to "perform" them, or descriptions of simple performing tasks.
That allows for a variable degree of creative freedom and does not require training or preliminary rehearsals of any kind. The participants become the actors and the audience of the performance at the same time. The resulting polyphony, in which everyone's own internal dialogue with her or his personal perception of time begins to sound louder and louder.
Texts used for performance and inspiration:
Confessions by St. Augustin
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Why time flies by Alan Burdick
All That Fall by Samuel Beckett
The list of tasks that is better to delegate to the others, at some poular self-help web-site
The list of language idioms related to the concept of time
News about the extinction of yet another animal
Pavel Serdyukov's personal diary
Hagakure by Hagakure Kikigaki
Cooking recipes and other
Confessions by St. Augustin
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Why time flies by Alan Burdick
All That Fall by Samuel Beckett
The list of tasks that is better to delegate to the others, at some poular self-help web-site
The list of language idioms related to the concept of time
News about the extinction of yet another animal
Pavel Serdyukov's personal diary
Hagakure by Hagakure Kikigaki
Cooking recipes and other
Made in collaboration with Uliana Vaskovitch