The experience of “the other” is the most absolute knowledge we are allowed in our lives. Theatre and art can act as conduit to that experience but their rituals often function best as extensions of our everyday ceremonies.<\/p>\n
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Conceived and Directed by April Sweeney An exploration of (anti)communication, disobedient tongues, a missing left foot, a dance, a relationship, a poem, or a broken heart. She and the Empty Living Room<\/strong><\/em> is a play in translation (literally) about the act of translation, repression\/oppression, and the language in your head that turns you into someone else.<\/font><\/p>\n She, and the Empty Living Room<\/em><\/strong> is a chamber play that looks at the (de)evolution of a relationship and the language it inherits. In loosing your language by trying to replace it with another you loose yourself and appropriate the other. Pretending to be someone else until you are forced to be the person you didn’t know you were.<\/font> <\/p>\n It is a play performed live by two actors in Spanish and English with simultaneous translation delivered via subtitles across two monitors on which also a film is seen. It is this film that is inherently translating the image (the play) before your eyes. It takes place in an almost empty room. A room in a house that is lived in.<\/font> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My blogging will continue to be intermittent now that our October production approaches. We’ll be headed up north to Ithaca for rehearsals in September. Before we leave we will host one more Avant Yarde event, so stay tuned here for that announcement shortly. Markus drove Carolina to JFK Monday night, so she is back in Argentina now. She is gone and present at the same time. I am meditating on her performance with Markus in She and the Empty Living…<\/p>\n![\"markus](\"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/ratsass\/she6.jpg\")
She and the Empty Living Room<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n
\nText by April Sweeney and Carolina Sotolano
\nPerformed by: Carolina Sotolano and Markus Hirnigel
\nFilm by: Miklos Buk
\nNew York Premiere<\/font><\/p>\n
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\nAfterwards the public is invited to stay. There is a salon of sorts, hopefully on a divan with red wine and banana bread. This interaction is the end of the event and just as important as the event itself.<\/font><\/p>\n![\"markus](\"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/ratsass\/she1.jpg\")
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