So
we all had a week off to take stock. Item: one work of genius, our new
home, this, "The Machine", with carpeting, crawl-space, trap-doors,
glass floors and lots and lots of banging. Item: another work of genius,
"Money" by Emil Zola, documenting the Paris Bourse Crash of 1882, and
settled on as a starting point for Shunt's new show all the way back in
June 2008, before any of those little caveats gabbled softly in the
closing seconds of a commercial came to pass and it all went down as
well as up. Item: one beekeeper's costume, three black hats. Item:
"frenetic activity", presumably to be specified at a later date and
possibly involving potted plants but ultimately, I mean, who knows...
Now our first two paying audiences, having paid and auded, are nursing
their din-weakened teeth and the promise of a free ticket to another
night, a night when we'll have the show that "MONEY" should be ready,
for we are not without honour, while the neat reprieve granted the Lounge - which was to have disbanded this month to make way for the priests and planners of Twinky's Mighty Teepee but
will now be staying open 'til September, hah! - means we're not without
money either. So it's back to the whatever-this-is-we're-doing board
and the plan I think now is - Well actually, I'm not sure how
confidential this is supposed to be... I mean as long as nobody knows
when you're going to open you never really have to. And although an
indefinitely extended rehearsal period may sound a bit like hell, like
actual Hell, like where you go when you die and you've been Hitler, a)
that's Shunt, and b) the good thing is we all have this at least in
common: What We Hate - and I think we pretty much all of us hated what was
performed last week. (When my trousers unexpectedly fell down on the
first night - not down, apart, they'd been torn in half during some
wrestling - I was actually relieved, I stood there relieved, because
this at least was SOMETHING not to react to, as opposed to all of that
NOTHING we'd been meant to be reacting to either side of it).
Thursday 28 May 2009
MOOLAH (It's French for Mill)
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