Made in USA | Who Left This Fork Here
Daniel Fish
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Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Reduced, Friends, Small groups (5-9 people): 8 €
Large groups (10+ people): 7 €
People with disabilities, Unemployed: 5 €
Companions: 8 €
Combo 4 tickets for “The Record” performance: 5 € per ticket
Combo 1+1: 5 € per ticket for selected performances of “Made in USA” festival: “A Piece of Work”, “Age & Beauty Part 1”, “Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem”, “Phone Homer”, “Tell Me Love Is Real”, “The Record”
Duration
1 hour
Introduction
If you were asked to recall a single prop from Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”, might it be the fork that appears at the end of the play? A subversive performance which sheds light both on the liminal state of Chekhov’s heroines and on a new theatricality.
An experimenter of genius with a body of works to his name which straddles theatre, film, opera and essay, Daniel Fish has forged a conceptual theatre which sacrifices none of its vivacity or emotivity, no matter whether he’s directing a classic play by Shakespeare or Molière, a single scene from a screenplay–as he did with Charlie Kaufman’s “Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind”, or fragments from novels by Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace.
“Who Left This Fork Here” (2015) is a wired, on-stage dissection of Act Three of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” which features three outstanding performers of different ages–each of whom has a bizarre but clearly specified ‘mission’ to perform among the towers of fantasy cakes, cameras and technicians wandering on and off stage bearing neon lamps, chairs, cables, cameras and microphones.
So are the three performers playing Masha, Olga and Irina? Maybe. The only certainty, however, is that this subversive performance conjures up an electrified stage poem which illuminates both the liminal state of its Chekhovian heroines and a new theatricality.
Photo: Paula Court
Wednesday 16 November
After performance talk with Daniel Fish
Moderated by Grigoris Ioannidis, theater critic and assistant professor of Drama Studies, University of Athens
Friday 18 November
Workshop with Daniel Fish
Credits
It premiered at BAC in 2015
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