The KAOS SWING VLOG 1
28 07 07 - 23:26 Category: default, movies.
We are developing a new show. It is a new piece called SWING by Xavier Leret. It is a 21st Century play inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's classic La Ronde. This is Xav's Vlog of the process. Please be warned that the VLOG contains strong language that is sexual in nature.
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I've just started devlopment with actors on my new play SWING. Here is a vlog summary of yesterdays work. I am working with actors Mat Fraser, Lisa Hammond, Robin Browne, Nuala Walsh, Nick Chambers and Tina Barnes, designer Nicolai Hart-Hansen and filmmaker Cristina Escoda. I'm using this week as an opportunity to really hone the text, cut out unecessary material etc.
I'm always nervous when I start a new project with actors, doubly so when it is my writing but I was quite terrified during the build up to this one. It is dark, sexually explicit material and often I was quite hesitant during my writing process. Early drafts shocked me as I was searching for the meaning of the work. Often the action was missing character, it was brutal because of its lack of meaning and/or purpose whereas the brutality needed to be existentially expressive. What I enjoyed yesterday, in the rehearsal room was the sense that I had found my way through.
Over the next few days I shall be publishing a series of VLOGS which will document the working process and if you are around in Battersea, London, next week please come along to a reading/performance.
Here is the blurb for the show.
Swing is an explicit new work by Xavier Leret. It examines a series of relationships grappling with the effects of our off and online addictions, fantasies and body image. A dysfunctional, shocking and sometimes tragic look at this post internet world of ours. SWING also marks the first collaboration between KAOS Theatre and disabled actor and activist Mat Fraser.
Swing follows a series of relationships. Harry, a man is his late fifties, sleeps with a young sex worker. Harry’s wife, Janet, is not what she was, her hip has gone and with it her self esteem. In an effort to re-light her sense of self worth Harry buys her some lingerie – it ‘s a mistake. Janet has an online sexual relationship with Mark. Mark has developed a serious addiction to cyber sex and porn. In a brutal scene Ruth his wife confronts him with it. In an effort to re-kindle her own wavering need for sex and her need for revenge Ruth visits sex worker John …
And here is todays VLOG. The video has been shot and edited by Cristina Escoda.
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