© Nicolas Biaux, Henry Chan
Et si Hansel avait consenti à être cuit vivant ?
“Consent is sexy” is a maxim on which there is general agreement. Beyond the quest for pleasure, what about the acts of intimacy we may consent to that are motivated by greed or curiosity? Born of Montreal's queer performance underground and written on a wet notebook in a sauna, this show is born of the collision between rigor and humility, pleasure and discomfort. Michael Martini draws on perverse stories and storytelling motifs to construct a hybrid performance that unfolds around a simple object: his own oven.
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Création et interprétation Michael Martini
Traduction Alegria Gobeil
Remerciements LA SERRE arts vivants (Montréal, Ca), Playwrights Workshop Montréal (Ca), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (Ca)
Credits
Michael Martini
Originally from Ontario, I live in Montreal, where I navigate the interdisciplinary, bilingual and queer scene, creating work for a variety of contexts, following studies in theater and linguistics. I have a bric-a-brac spirit, oscillating between the banal and the eccentric, layering text, images and fantasy - like children playing in Grandma's basement. I make my own design elements, often stumbling. It's a quality I invest in: a lucidity in front of the audience that lets fragility and liveliness unfold (fingers crossed). In terms of interdisciplinarity, reality is a discipline for me, just like reality TV or porn. I prefer improvised costumes and cut-and-paste objects from life to theatrical props. I like blood rather than ketchup, I like precariousness, I like administrative nudism. In 2018, my co-creation Ça a l'air synthétique bonjour hi made waves, not least because we paid the audience to work in it. Et si Hansel avait consenti à être cuit vivant? takes my practice abroad for the first time. Here's hoping I don't forget the breadcrumbs.