A feminist intervention into the theatre canon and schooling.
Masha Serghyeevna is a solo performance in the making which sets out to query my theatre background (and my Eastern European Stanislavki actor training tradition) and celebrate my move from theatre towards live art/performance art.
This performance is about war and longing. It also includes dancing. The main character is Masha Serghyeevna, the middle child, one of Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’. The absent character is Officer Vershinin. Key words: revolution, desire, longing, affairs, letters, Vershinin, officers, soldiers, war, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow…
On stage on the floor there is an abandoned black skirt, stockings, pink bra, a copy of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, a rose, dancing shoes, red dress, soldier’s jacket, Strauss’ Waltz, sexy underwear, black clothes, letters, lipstick, a black ribbon, hair brush. I am leaning back. I am putting on my clothes. I am taking off my clothes. I am being photographed in sexy underwear.
More information (including video clip) about the show will be available in due course.
