The British theatre/dance group ‘Bock & Vincenzi’ boast of producing works which are unique and uncompromising. Having seen them at the International Live Media Festival ‘Netmage’ in Bologna I wouldn’t argue with this description.
They were performing ‘The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown’ billed in the programme as “a theatrical celebration of the death of reality”. As you may imagine, this is not conceived as a lightweight entertainment package but rather, as a skewed Gothic melodrama of chaos and confusion which sets out to disturb and disorientate. Continue reading
“Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not”
