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MUSEUM PERFORMANCE TRAINING
Museum Theatre Practice or Museum Performance as developed by Triangle
is an emergent methodology that explores the mutual ground between
museology and performance.
Triangle's Museum Theatre Practice is an
investigation of the museum's process of regeneration, conservation
and pillage, and focusses on performative phenomena such as disappearance,
absence and fantasy.
Triangle's museum theatre work is distinguished
by the creation of detailed characterisation and the de-centring
of the performing subject during extended improvisations. This
format explores the sometimes comical ambitions of living history,
bringing the
personal and family histories of the performer into dialogue with
oral histories, historical sites and artifacts.
Recent performances
have taken place on an isolated scout camp, a Roman Fort, an impoverished
street due for redevelopment, and an abandoned convent. Productions
are based around carefully structured alternative realities, and
seek out unpredictable strategic interactions by
non-performers and the general public.
Recent productions Nina
and Frederick (1997-2003), Whissell & Williams (2001-2005),
and The Singing Nun (2002-2006) have created a complex network
of affectively ambiguous encounters between the historical
and the everyday, between the politically correct and the anachronistic.
The
current work is Chico Talks, inspired by The Herbert's collection
of artifacts, photographs and ephemera belonging to 'Chicot',
a clown who lost his memory during the Coventry Blitz..
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