what would the community think...

"In the end we forget everything, anyway. We're human; we're amnesia machines."
Subliminal.

A decision is made then the next day or so the entire conversation happens again as if no one remembers.
I hope the play is necessarily re-written through the vocal, bodily, spatial practices of the actors and the rest of the performance / technical team. Theatre is, and always has been profoundly and necessarily heteroglossic,
even though the prism of the dominant paradigm has led us to see it as the product of one voice (traditionally that of the writer, more recently the director). It was surely the effect of that prism and ignorance of actors creative processes
that led Bakhtin to claim that the theatre was monologic, for I would argue that the relation between text and performance in text-based theatre is fundamentally, paradigmatically dialogic. That is to say that the performance is a 'structure in
relation to another structure', which is Kristeva's definition of the dialogic.

more questions

Hamlet The play is specifically about you. Do you think you would be interested in being in a play that wasn't?

Has theatre emotionally scarred you?

How important is sex to you and your work?

What is it that you are getting out of making theatre?

Isn't autobiography the best form of fiction?

Do you think it is it justified to expose others for the sake of your art?

What makes you feel beautiful?

What are the primary objectives when you dress?

Farewell my ladies, good night.

Today is our last working day in cees studio in haarlem.
From very intense and concentrated moments...

...dramatic and pathetic scenes...

...we went on to jollier situations.


Pretty soon we are heading for the FRASCATI and the COUCH.

The following starting situation is given

The following starting situation is given: our
audience is coming in, we assume that they just saw
our performance of the hamlet piece and now they are
witnessing the talk after. the credits (aftiteling) is
running on screen on the background. nancy/ophelia
starts a serious dance solo (6 min), then we jump into
the talkshow. (we are already sitting there during the
dance, watching nancy)

roles: interviewer: saskia, director: kees, hamlet:
cees, mother gertrud: cees mother, ophelia: nancy,
dramaturg: nicola, life sound manipulation: alison.
first only kees and cees are sitting on the
interviewcouch to keep the talk concentrated on them.
then ophelia, and mother comes. how and when we still
have to discuss and find out.

QUESTIONS

Possible categories:
- within/about the play
- personal questions
- questions about theatre/aesthetics/about the
opdracht and year 3000
- questions regarding daily life

- within/about the play
(death, son-mother relationship, guilt, female versus
male roles)
- Do you have a working method? (topics like hypnosis
will be touched)
- How did you prepare yourself for the play?
- How do you remember all those lines?
- Is Hamlet, the play, teaching us something, is there
a moral in the text?
- What is the most important scene for you in the
piece - the most important text/line?
- Can hate/ a negative feeling like revenge/ produce a
hope/a positive feeling?
- what is the role of women in that play?
- If Hamlet is not mad, how is it possible that he
sees his father's ghost - and his mother does not?
- what is a ghost?
- Is the play religious?
- When will Hamlet be outdated?
- Will Hamlet still be played in the year 3000?
- Is theatre related to a Zeitgeist? Is Hamlet related
to a Zeitgeist?

- questions about theatre/aesthetics
- what is your ideal audience?
- What is the relationship between failure and your
work?
- What does theatre mean to you?
- You have just been a test bunny for a post-academic
institute and experienced with so called horizontal
working - shared responsibility among 5 artists for
one piece. Have you had such an experience before and
is such a working method valid to you? Or is it just
putting water into each others concepts and blocking
energies?

- personal questions
death
- Do you hope for a life after death?
- Why do dying people never cry?
- Are you afraid of death and why?
- do you believe in a preset destiny?
- How do you experience time? What is your concept of
time?

women/men
- Do you feel sorry for women? / Do you pity women?
And why?
- What is being male for you?
- Would you like to be a woman?
- Are you bewildered by a smart lesbian?
- who invented the castration complex?

- Do you think you have humor? Describe it.
- Can you feel Blutsverwandschaft? (compared to for
example Seelenverwandschaft)
- What did you inherit from your parents?/ What did
you pass on to your children? (a question for kees
+mother)

- questions regarding daily life
- How much costs a pound of butter nowadays?

Alexandre Dumas: Shakespeare is the poet who created
most after God.

ophelia's song perhaps

ophelia often undermines the 'everyday banal' form of the talk show by breaking into song or dance

an example of a way of working a song in with the talk show