MacKenzie, Neil
(2004)
Round-about.
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(Unpublished)
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22 Sep 2009 14:50
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'Round-about' is a small-scale theatre piece based on the musical Carousel and performed by five performers for a traverse audience. Staying faithful to sections of the original dialogue interlaced with remembered visual description, much of the piece comprises the performance presentation of the discrete theatrical and semiotic processes related to such a text. 'Round-about' builds on the concerns and discoveries of the previous outcomes of the ‘re-placing texts’ PaR project, in the light of the semiotic challenges and performance physicality of this particular source text. 'Round-about' works to stimulate both a heightened awareness of physical immediacy - resulting from proximity, risk and the physical exertions of the performers - and an analytical engagement with the impact of the audience’s own presence, in the face of the essentially escapist dramatic text. Additionally the material is organised to emphasize the potential for both a critical/political and an emotional engagement with such a musical. Thematically relevant to Carousel, the piece also demands a re-consideration of the act of seeing in theatre, a concern supported by the juxtaposition of extracts from Aldous Huxley’s The Art of Seeing (1943). Extending this approach to include the act of interpretation and semiotic readership, round-about applies a Derridean model of deconstruction not just to an historically-located popular performance text but to a live and ‘contemporary’ performance situation which itself embraces the conventions of the text. Tour: 2004 PARIP regional symposium, MMU Cheshire; Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University; Bowen West Theatre, De Montfort University, Bedford; Greenroom, Manchester; Prema Arts Centre, Gloucestershire; Alsager Arts Centre, MMU. Funding: £5000 from ACE, and £3,500 in venue fees. Documentation: DVD; Turner, Jane (2007) ‘Acts of Creative Vandalism? Plane Performance Deconstructs the Canon’, NTQ 23:3; See also draft, Mackenzie ‘The Performer’s Predicament’ (proposed for Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2008). |
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Faculties > MMU Cheshire (Legacy) |
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https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/82098 |
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