This was a recent art project I did for my Conceptual Art class. Can it be done? Should it?
Roller Derby Hamlet
CAST: The Maui Roller Derby Girls.
This is a group of trained roller derby players who compete on the island of Maui in Kihei. Though not publically advertised, the MRDG are also lesbians who, during their off time, engage in Jackass-type performance acts (for example, getting drunk and hitting each other with tasers).
PERFORMANCE:
The performance itself will be comprised of all or a selection of works listed below (excerpts will be chosen with the MRDG). The MRDG are not to be directed to perform the texts in any theatrically traditional fashion, nor should they perform the texts in ignorance. To do so might create a performance which could be unintentionally negative, insulting and condescending to the MRDG. The MRDG should be familiar enough with the language and subject of the works, allowing them to expand the works in any way they wish. This could include rewriting dialogue, adding and/or changing characters, altering storylines, etc. The MRDG are not to be fitted into the texts; the texts are to be sculpted so that they fit the MRDG.
TEXTS:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Duclitus, Hrosvita
Medea, Euripides
The Cid, Corneille
Phaedra, Racine
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler
‘Night Mother, Marsha Norman
Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet
Fight Club
I Love Lucy
Michael Jackson’s Thriller Video
The Dark Knight
Queer as Folk
Silence of the Lambs
True West, Sam Sheperd
Married, With Children
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Notebook
South Park
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jackass
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This is fantastic. I vote for The Epic of Gilgamesh and Glengarry Glen Ross. Though to be clear, the Maui Roller Derby Girls are not all lesbians. Some, perhaps most, but not all. Also, they sometimes do car washes to raise funds to do bouts on Oahu, though recently they were told by the local Star Market (in which parking lot they were conducting one fundraising car wash) that their practice of stripping off their shirts and washing car windows with their bikini-clad chests was, hereby, forbidden.
ReplyDeleteNeed I mention that I do not shop at Star Market?