Emily Mast - Offending the Audience - This Weekend

Offending The Audience

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, March 25-27, 2011
8 o’clock PM
Tickets $10
($8 VPES Members, Students, Seniors)
Advance tickets available athttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/158708

Presented by Emily Mast, Offending The Audience is an “anti-play” that was written in 1966 by the Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke. This 45-minute lecture about theater must, by necessity, take place in a theater while attempting to be as un-theatrical as possible. In this particular adaptation, seven children between the ages of six and twelve remove the audience from the artificiality of a critical discourse of artifice by introducing real play into a play that, for all its avant-garde seminality is, to a contemporary ear, far too self-conscious to be listened to. The childrens’ lack of pretense allows the audience to experience the piece empathetically. This fresh take on Handke by no means resembles a conventional children's play. Rather, it is a conceptual gesture that is staged in a seemingly conventional theater.

With : Zane Amundsen, Amber Barbell, Mathew Davis, Bailey Garcia, Kaitlin Morgan, Gerald Orzikh & Talyan Wright

Emily Mast is a visual artist who works primarily with people, movement and sound to advocate uncertainty as live sculptural material. Please visit emilymast.comfor more information.  

Cast photo by Mackenzie Hoffman