Modern American theater’s new edge, Kenneth Collins, presents work to Asia for the first time. A jam packed stage, incorporated with road movie.
The American playwright/director, Kenneth Collins, is a cutting edge artist who since establishing the theater group “Temporary Distortion” in 2002 in New York, has gained acclaim in French, Canadian and Australian theater festivals. This performance in Shizuoka will be his first production in Asia.
Collins work, known for having a novelty literary style, is characterized by keeping the acting to a complete minimum. Like in all of his work, the acting is alongside yet another piece of art, a road show like film playing in the back. These two aspects are made in such a way, sometimes overlapping, sometimes off beat, sometimes completely unrelated, that one cannot help but to view various ways.
The actors stand up straight, speak through microphones, and hardly move at all. They don’t even face each other, let alone touch. By using this restricted form of acting and unrealistic narration, a vague melancholic feeling of loss drifts around the actors. Ironically, it seems as though the people who appear in the film are living in a more realistic world. As the title suggests, enjoy going down this road theater, to a place neither here nor there; Welcome to Nowhere.
| Endorsed by：CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES NAGOYA・JAPAN Nagoya American Center |
