{"id":37,"date":"2008-11-11T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.61\/~twisithe\/?p=37"},"modified":"2023-08-05T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T18:02:37","slug":"i-didnt-get-it-but-did-anyone-oink-oink-oink-silenzio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Didn\u2019t Get It\u201d: But Did Anyone? Oink Oink Oink. SILENZIO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">A few days ago a friend and I met at the coffee shop directly between our two buildings and I bought a hot chocolate which said on the coffee sleeve, \u201cCaution: The future you are about to explore is very hot.\u201d This week I have realized that the future is indeed very hot and one must take caution with it. And I\u2019m not just talking about that cup. So, what happens when the past and the future collide in the now? <em>ScrABrrRrraaNNg<\/em>.<br \/>\nOne hundred years ago Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote the Futurist manifesto and the students of the University of Toronto\u2019s Graduate Centre for Drama sought to use their understanding of Marinetti\u2019s time, place, means and intentions to recreate and re-interpret the Futurist performance art. By its very existence, <em>ScrABrrRrraaNNg<\/em> is a contradiction as the Futurists were adamant that they held no connection to, and had no interest in, the past. Can graduate students reinterpret art that was created to glorify war, speed, abolish all techniques of the pass\u00e9ist theatre, and promote contempt for women, if they don\u2019t believe in any of these values? How does an audience respond to a mixture of theatre and academic experiment, and a piece that is so abstract sometimes the actors don\u2019t even understand what they are saying or why they are doing what they are doing. Who is this audience? Why do they yell out and what do they yell out? Are they doing it because they feel like they\u2019re \u201csupposed\u201d to? Or do they just revel in opportunity to have the Rocky Horror Show experience?<br \/>\nThe standout \u201cperformances\u201d in <em>ScrABrrRrraaNNg<\/em> were, I think, the most theatrically accessible, which raises the question of how purely we are invested in the Futurists\u2019 ideals. \u201cGlorify Contempt For Woman\u201d was poignantly and beautifully performed by Moynan King, Sasha Kovacs and Natalie Mathieson and used Futurist aesthetic to subvert Marinetti\u2019s misogynist principles. Amazing aerialist Rebecca Leonard performed a salute to speed and contemporary industrial life that was awing and beautiful. Art Babayants treated everyone with his amazing piano and tap dancing skills, Brendon Allen\u2019s acting chops shone through \u201cNose Diving On the City\u201d which created a strong connection between the futurists\u2019 \u201cabsurd energies\u201d and the kamikaze pilots of World War II. Joe Culpepper is a magnificent magician and performer, bursting with charm, stage presence and talent. Paul Babiak and Alex Lent stopped the show cold while they danced on stilts, and I wonder how many people in the audience felt uncomfortable with the allusions to domestic violence within this sintesi, or whether they were simply awed by the beauty and skillful talent on display. Dalbir Singh\u2019s \u201cTroop Train\u201d created a striking allusion to the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq- leaving the audience to fill in their own blanks. Something tells me that this audience has very little glorification for war. As always, Sasha Von Bon Bon resists being summed up in a pretty little paragraph, so I won\u2019t try. Sasha Kovacs provided amazing and hilarious commentary throughout to insure the audience was never bored. But it was Moynan King\u2019s pig that stole the show, simply because his little oinking snout and tail are just too adorable.<br \/>\nFamiliarity shone through the abstract in <em>ScrABrrRrraaNNg<\/em> and it was that which I connected to so strongly and appreciated so much. What does that mean in terms of the academic experiment? Am I a futurist failure because I didn\u2019t shriek \u201cEUREKA!\u201d when I heard \u201cBriccatirakamekame!\u201d? I saw more of the graduate students\u2019 intelligence, wit, and talent than I saw of the futurist ideals Marinetti championed throughout his life. I saw their resistance to these principles- if even in a repressed sense. As Sasha Kovacs alludes to in her final address: the future is scary. Caution: the future you are about to explore is very hot. There may be flying ceramics and someone has pre-set a hatchet\u2026 but one thing I take comfort in, is that no matter how much graduate students submerge themselves in research, and saturate themselves with the past, and as they try to fling themselves headlong into the future- their supremely intelligent and perceptive view of the tumultuous world we live in and the challenges we all face shines through. I\u2019m glad Marinetti did not succeed in burning the libraries or killing the theatre. 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