Five Truths
On 24 July 2011, I visited the Five Truths installation at the Victoria and Albert Museum and livetweeted my reaction. Rather than write up my thoughts into a traditional review, I decided to record that realtime reaction, and some of the responses to it, using Storify.
First, some context, so you know what on Earth I'm reacting to.
Five Truths - Victoria and Albert MuseumWhat are the differences between five of the most influential European theatre practitioners of the 20th century? How would these five directors work with the actress playing Ophelia in the famous mad scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet? What would they ask the actress to do and how would they ask the actress to behave?- And now, my reaction.
- She took the goldfish bowl off-camera, goldfish and all, and it was never seen again.
Brecht-Ophelia does a lot of strident singing. Grotowski-Ophelia wails. Because the underlying structure of the five pieces is the same, these high-energy moments tend to occur simultaneously. Stay in the installation long enough and you get a really strong sense of the rhythm of the template speech.
