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JEMMA NELSON |
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Plays by Jemma Nelson |
Broke House | ||
| 1st Produced: | Abrons Arts Center, 465 Grand Street, New York | 06 Apr 2012 | ||||
Company: | Big Art Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138503 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Created By: Caden Manson, Jemma Nelson, Big Art Group | |||||
Synopsis: | Broke House explores the process of construction, when that process becomes sharply interrupted by historical events, and dissolves into the shapelessness of an aftermath. Those processes that were building previous to the plays beginning include a life, a family, architecture, or a system of beliefs, an economy of values, and the creation of the performance itself. But when events interveneevents like collapse, upheaval, disaster, abandonment, forgetting, fear, and strifeall the raw materials and the players themselves become deformed into a new formlessness, and enter a transitional state of potentiality. Like the pause loop in a video game, Broke House takes place in this marginal time zone. Like all of Big Art Groups works, Broke House offers their meditation on the current states of America, which they believe have been in flux for at least as long as their ensemble has been up and running. Beyond the topical symptoms of foreclosure crises, credit crises, occupy movements and extremist rhetoric, we suppose that the metaphorical heart of the country has been suffering, and perhaps has decided to rebuild the body that surrounds it. | |||||
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SOS | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Big Art Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95906 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
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Notes: | created by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson | |||||
Synopsis: | SOS is an investigation into the nature of sacrifice within a supersaturated, hyper-acquisitive society. Set in a theatrical space that plays with the idea of representation, where the cables and cameras of surveillance appear as a forest of technology, the performance unwinds through overlapping abstract narratives. Animals (played by actors in plushy costumes and body mounted cameras) pushed from their native habitat turn on each other in a hopeless contest for survival. Televised Trans-Variant Revolutionaries from the Realness Liberation Front broadcasting in a skeletal studio implode under the pressure and failure of their own rhetoric. Social networking addicts enmeshed in a self-created universe seek escape from a tightening web of perception. As these scenarios vibrate against one another, the action transforms into a celebration of renewal though chaos. In SOS, Big Art Group further develops its real-time film technique, a conceptual model conflating live performance, television, and movies. The unique methodology combines live performance with video, cinematic composition, and controlled perspective with the realism of TV broadcast | |||||
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