GHOSTS (in the machine)
1993
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This was a show for two perfomer/ technicians, video, slide, OHP and soundtrack. It was concerned with Naturalism in theatre and in real life. It used a mix of improvisation, real tasks and short scenes from Ibsen's Ghosts.
These were all performed with the same sequence of 'natural' movements, based on actions from 1940's film Rebecca and from programmed behaviour from robots. (We were starting a body of research into robots which later led to the installation, Room for Robots.) The video, shown on two monitors, featured robots, film clips, scene setting and cctv of close up action. Back projected slides showed fjords and Nordic scenery.

We were concerned with the notion of acting naturally and what this notion meant to dramatists and designers of Artificial Intelligence.

We were also working with CCTV in this piece which included a scene in which 'Pastor Manders'and 'Mrs Alving' set fire to the orphanage. This task - completed centre stage with a mini model of the building and a box of matches - was conveyed to cctv as a life size fire.


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