Upcoming Train / Stopped Clock / Untitled Waiting

 

Two characters waiting for the train to come on the platform, but they never really get on any train no matter how many trains have arrived and departed. Not until another two (who are actors on stage) take off from the train do they finally realize instead of the train, what they are waiting for is actually Pozzo. Inspired by Waiting for Godot, Upcoming Train/Stopped Clock/Untitled Waiting will examine the ridicule of the quotidian life, of the artistic life, and raise an unanswerable question: what are we actually waiting for?

 

Upcoming Train/Stopped Clock/Untitled Waiting is a manifesto of the ritual of waiting, presented by four characters that represent the general public and artists. The ritual, addressed upon life/death and reality/illusion, will be shown by metatheatre and paronomasia within the conversationamong the animate beings (characters) and the inanimate beings (mannequins), and further by the embodiment of the sufferings from the ritual itself to accent the timelessness of the action and the ridicule of the action itself.

 

-- presented by Theater for the New City, Crystal Field (Artistic Director) as part of Dream Up Festival 2013