Collaborative Playwriting: Polyvocal Approaches From the EU Collective Plays Project by Paul C. Castagno

Author:Paul C. Castagno [Castagno, Paul C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367352394
Google: LbqYxgEACAAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-28T00:22:28.473524+00:00

SCENE 3

A room in a modern art gallery. A Sol LeWitt wall drawing. ADAMO and FEDERICO, viewing the collection, enter in mid-conversation.

ADAMO: …They do this thing with chocolate. They expose it to the electromagnetic brain waves of Tibetan monks. Which they’ve found a way of recording. After five days it’s then sold. How else do you explain why people feel better after eating chocolate? Could be why, in my dream last night, I thought: “Here I could prosper if I could on bury my fears deeply enough.” Then natives arrived in their tribal dress, they approached me. I thought “this the end.” But when one of them took me by my arm, I felt such pleasure. My first thought was: This shirt fits like a glove, even though I wasn’t wearing a thing. I had a little speck of blood on my wrist. But the shirt! Fitted me perfectly. I remember, in a corner of the village there was this guy who organizes drag-queen shows back home. He attacked me with a broken glass, threatening me because he said the government was prepared to fund my research but not his art. He stood there getting drunk. I thought: “I want to go. But where?” My answer was the eighteenth century. I found myself in a room shaped like a cranium, with a baby dressed in eighteenth-century clothes. I did feel relieved I could live beyond time. The cranial shape of the room must have had something to do with my Father’s fall. Subarachnoid hemorrhage.

FEDERICO: I didn’t know. Should I…

ADAMO: How can we be so oblivious to the real world? (looking at the wall-drawing) Am I the only one who thinks conceptual art so moving?

FEDERICO: Adamo… (looking at the wall drawing and his gallery catalogue) He drew ten thousand lines, thirty centimetres in length, uniformly filling walls. What could possibly move me?

ADAMO: When I told Julia about me and Nuran, she placed my right hand across her lips, urging me to: “Shut my mouth”. (pointing to another wall-drawing hanging on the “fourth wall”) Look at this field of darkness playing with the white wall. Sol LeWitt made a lot of these before he died. It’s a portal made of fog. It needs to be crossed. Do you like it?

FEDERICO: Elegant…

ADAMO: Extending human rights to apes is elegant, but it doesn’t mean that…

FEDERICO: Your friend. Gabriella.

ADAMO: Friend? She wanted to call a toy shop “Free time.”

FEDERICO: Did you see the film Where The Wild Things Are? There’s this child, Max, who, when he’s sad, sees gigantic beasts full of feathers, wings, horns… irrational and dangerous. Carol, one of the monsters, tells him “I like how you destroy things.”

ADAMO: Do you want to know why I was pissed off at the cafe? The Sol LeWitt salads.

FEDERICO: They were very nice.

ADAMO: Unconsciously, a museum cafe is antagonistic. They wipe away any idea of solidity to provide a reality we have to pay for. It’s a freak show. And that lesbian waitress you were talking to.

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