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About Seda Ilter

Seda Ilter is a drama and theatre scholar currently working as an Associate Lecturer on the Text and Performance and Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance MAs at Birkbeck College, University of London. She holds a PhD in contemporary drama, and her research interests lie in the theory and practice of modern and contemporary theatre, aesthetics and politics of new media in theatre, new British writing, and writing practices for performance. Seda is also a freelance translator of British plays into Turkish, and a theatre director. Her most recent project involves the translation and staging of Tim Crouch’s The Author in Istanbul.

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Darren Purnell & Tuffbroads: La Bouche in Watch My Lips & Baby Lame

La BoucheEntering the small black box stage of the Marlborough Theatre the audience encounters a drag artist, standing on a plinth, singing Gloria Gaynor’s I will Survive with his back turned to the audience. Then, as he undresses, we see a man wearing a black vest and underpants. His face is covered with white cloth that exposes his lips, beautifully decorated with glittery beads and red lipstick. A pair of magnified cardboard eyes accompanies this exaggeration of the lips. When the audience shifts its attention from his face to his body, it becomes clear that the drag artist has divided his presence into two gender positions, wearing a high-heel shoe on one foot whilst leaving the other one bare. This reference to gender and sexual identity, and the performativity of gender become clear as the central concerns of the piece.

This statue-like figure – an epitome of gender identities gathered in a single body – presents the audience with a story of transformation. As the performance moves forward, mostly through lip-synced songs, he tears off the big paper-eyes and the cloth over his face, whilst everybody is watching him repeatedly saying ‘la bouche’ (mouth). This not only reveals his quite masculine facial features, but also emphasises the sparkly feminine mouth. The repetition of ‘la bouche’ gives the impression that it is his name and this is an introduction scene: an introduction to the process of La Bouche’s identity formation embodying the two gender positions, as well as an introduction of the stage persona to the audience. La Bouche in Watch My Lips then further explores sexuality and gender through songs and dance. The resistance to and questioning of heteronormative sexual identity and the socially defined boundaries of gender are taken further when he, naked and facing back on the pedestal, pulls his genitals between his legs and transforms his male organ into something that looks more female. The blurring of boundaries between genders through a single body is very interesting: it not only foregrounds the interrelatedness of both sexes, but also evokes the performativity of gender, its constructed nature. The lip-synched pop songs through a deep male voice enhance the fluidity of identities by overlaying the here-and-now presence of the performer with the physically absent owner of the voice. This liminal state that La Bouche occupies suggests that the transformation creates the possibility for multiple of identities, not a single fixed one. La Bouche in Watch My Lips balances humour, seriousness, suffering and sensitivity, and offers a stimulating performance that foregrounds issues around sexuality, gender identity and otherness.

After a ten-minute break, Baby Lame takes the stage.  He is a cabaret drag queen with a garish look in a synthetic blonde wig, excessive make-up over a butch, bearded face and ill-fitting dress, accompanied by another performer, Moan Crawful as her mother (who in her inflated make-up and dress stands mostly in the wings). Baby Lame’s show involves songs, made-up videos of Baby Lame and Oprah Winfrey, dance, singing, quite a lot of screaming and swearing, and props such as a blow-up doll (note: he throws this forcefully to the audience which at the show painfully ended up on my face!). Most of the time Baby Lame grotesquely dances and jarringly sings, and speaks to the audience through various tones and roles: she is Baby Lame when she has a sweet voice of a girl, and suddenly shifts into a rather monstrous persona angrily yelling at the audience. Throughout the night the audience is often asked to participate in the show as Baby Lame walks around the audience talking to them individually or inviting an audience member onto the stage, and sometimes picking on an audience whilst playing ‘pass the parcel’. The willingness of the audience leads to some naturally developed funny sequences. However, overall, the show has some rather tasteless jokes that often lead to uncomfortable and even dull moments.

Baby Lame’s show description refers to My Super Sweet 16 and Honey Boo Boo, seeming to offer a drag-cabaret performance with a sarcastic view on the culture of commercialisation and commodification. Throughout the show Baby Lame rags about fallen celebrities such as Britney Spears, cynically impersonates Rhianna or ridicules Oprah Winfrey through the made-up video recordings of conversations between Winfrey and Baby Lame. However, these instances of social criticism are fundamentally tenuous; they are not developed or delivered strongly enough to create laughter or provoke thoughts in the audience. The show therefore fails to meet its own aims or its offer for a fun night with a critical edge. This offhand banality of the show might be purposeful, yet such a link between the mode of the performance and its underlying themes is not given solidly enough for the audience to recognise it.

These end-of-festival shows at the Marlborough Theatre, which has been developing its identity as a programmer for Queer Arts particularly since the inception of Pink Fringe in 2011, despite certain weaknesses offered some insightful perspectives on the questions of gender identity, otherness and popular culture.

Casus: Knee Deep

Casus - Knee DeepBrisbane-based contemporary circus company, Casus, was formed in 2011 by established solo artists Emma Serjeant, Lachlan MacAulay, Jesse Scott and Natano Fa’anana. Their sensational debut collaboration Knee Deep has been performed widely in Australia and around the world, and this is its second visit to the Brighton Fringe.

In the atmospheric setting of the Spiegeltent the audience sits on three sides of an elevated thrust stage, a bare, well-lit setting that dramatically foregrounds the position and action of each performer. Knee Deep opens with Emma Serjeant skilfully walking on a couple of boxes full of eggs without a single crack. This impressive opening signals what is to come: a striking performance that tests the limits of body strength and poise through acrobatics, aerial work, and acrobalance, with impeccable timing and spatial acuity. The performers skilfully climb up one another, roll over each other, vertically interlink their bodies like rings in a chain, or forcefully push and pull on one another. Besides their bodies as the main apparatus of the show, they use a few acrobatic tools such as trapeze bar, strands of silk, ropes, and hula-hoops, that allow them to hang upside down, briefly plunge or interlace with each other. As the bodies move breathtakingly on the stage, the audience feels a throbbing in their hearts, sometimes jumping in their seats moved by both the palpable risk and warmth emanating from the stage.

This visual feast is formed of a series of vignettes each marked by idiosyncratic music ranging from jazz and acoustic to electronic and chamber music by Kronos Quartet, Sentieri Selvaggi, Gil Scott-Heron among others. The carefully structured sound design enhances the intensity of the visual acts on the stage, deepening the impact of every physical action, be it a quick and powerful aerial move, funny trick or gentle hand balancing. Black Angels by Kronos Quartet creates tension as Serjeant is walking on the eggs, Metrorail Thru Space by Cut Chemist forms a playful mood during the performers’ acrobatic moves.

The group has a noteworthy harmony and equality in the ways the performance is divided up, as well as in terms of their physical capacities. The performers move fluidly on and off stage, into and out of the spotlight, supporting one another in different configurations, but all four are given equal prominence. The only female performer, Emma Serjeant, is striking when she smoothly carries and supports two of the male performers on her back. Beyond their accord as an ensemble, each member of the troupe also shows his/her individual skills through solos: Natano Fa’anana climbs up, folds and unfolds himself through the strands of silk, amplifying this image by simultaneously creating an origami bird whose flightless wings stand in stark contrast to his own stunning aerial display; Jesse Scott skilfully stands on his head to duet engagingly with a single egg; Lachlan MacAulay does acrobatic turns on the rope as if he was dancing with it; and Serjeant pushes the limits of balance and flexibility whilst hand balancing on Russian-style rods. Beyond their remarkable skills, vigour and potency, what is momentously arresting in their performance is the fact that they do not attempt to present the audience with perfection. Throughout the performance the audience clearly sees the struggle and resistance of the performers’ bodies as their muscles contract, arms shake and they sweat. As much as the strength of the body, its fragility and boundaries are revealed, making the stunning acts on the stage more down to earth without reducing their jaw-dropping impact on the audience.

Eggs are a recurring motif throughout the show: being hammered into (without cracking), balanced upon, dropped from a height, even serenaded through acrobatics. This central image’s delicate yet hard shell hints towards the fragility as well as the strength of human body and existence. This analogy between the fragility of eggs and delicacy of human beings becomes more momentous when eggs accidentally get broken in some sequences.  However, the imagery of eggs remains ambiguous in the show: its uses are not intelligibly interlinked and contextualised within the performance, its potential not fully realised as an idea, though certainly creating electrifying wow-effects.

The show’s other recurrent theme is defined by the company as a journey through ‘fleeting relationships’. During the show there are instances of pushing and pulling of bodies, of connection through human chains and towers that evoke the ephemerality of human relationships as well as the sense of need and desire for bonding. The performances have visibly emotional notes: actions are laughing and warm, or tentative, or provocative.  We are encouraged to see the human figures behind the performing bodies.

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