Truthteller (pre terminal) 2015

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3 performers

 1-1.5 hours

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Maker: Eroca Nicols aka Lady Janitor

Performers: Eroca Nicols, Carly Boyce

                 and Simon Portigal or Madeleine Shen

Volunteer choir

Sound: AW Lee, Thomas Herzog

 

A solo, not solo work by Lady Janitor featuring:

feats of fear facing and concentration, questions

and answers, femme-tasticone-on-one time, calling

on and calling out the past, present and future,

conversation, acquatechnics, live lifelong lasting body alteration, dancing, sweating, movement and yes, truthtelling.

Are we seeing or being seen? What are we saying yes to and are we allowed to say no?

 

At once a ritual and a deconstruction of the ritual of contemporary performance, Truthteller deals with what and how we consent to participate in collective action. What are we agreeing to and how did we get here?

 

What are we doing when we think we are watching? Where and how do consent come into play in contemporary performances romance and ritual?

 

Truthteller concentrates on calling on and calling out the past, present and future intersections of ritual, performance and community care.

 

more on Truthteller:

-community responsibility, 

-consent, sit according to how much touch and interaction you want from the Truthteller, 

-illustration/investigation of ritual and actual ritual at the same time, truthunder pressure

  and from a variety of vantage points, 

-pedantic over clarification at every step of the way through each audience interaction, 

-nature drag, audience enterss space as a forest

-audience watching other audience make choices,

-performed with my eyes closed so people take care of me and/or take advantage, 

-one finger manicures are offered to several lucky audience members preshow, they tell

  me a secret or ask me a question, I give them a middle finger manicure, 

-ongoing (I am tattooed in the work while being asked questions to which I respond

  truthfully-when the tattoo is done -the show will no longer be performed, it is finite

  it will die.)

-Truthteller premiered when Glam had been diagnosed but was not yet terminal. It was

  the first show Glam was not involved in (as the stage manager of my life) since we met.