Documenting Performance
This page is set aside for students of the level 3 module, Documenting Performance. The students form a team who, through a process of review writing and video documentation, reflect on and archive performances that visit The Show Room theatre.
The first performance to be documented this semester is The Pilots, staged by the internationally acclaimed Reckless Sleepers on Thursday 18th September 2008.
‘This isn’t the first time this has happened. We’ve done this before. Many times. We’re professionals. I know what I’m doing and he knows what he’s doing. And what we’re supposed to be doing isn’t this and what we promised you in the publicity or in the brochures or whatever isn’t what we’re doing now…’
Two men are pretending. Two men are pretending to be pilots. Two men are pretending to be George Michael and Andrew Ridgely in the Club Tropicana video.
Two men are pretending to know what they’re doing. Reckless Sleepers mark 20 years of making cutting edge contemporary performance by going back to the beginning. A theatre. An audience. Two men pretending.
The performance is part of a series of works investigating acts of terror.
