Performance

Siden jeg ble spurt om performanceteater og forholdet til lek påmuntlig eksamen, passer det fint å dele noe jeg leste i min kjære dramturgibok her om dagen. Laurie Andreson, en kjent performer (hva? har du ikke hørt om henne?!?!) sier i en av sine forestillinger:

"Good evening. Now, I`m no mathematician but I`d like to talk about just a couple of numbers that have really been bothering me lately, and they are zero and one. Now, let`s take a look at zero. Now, nobody wants to be a zero. To be a zero means to be a nothing, a nobody, a has-been, a ziltch. On the other hand, just everybody wants to be number one. To be number one means to be a winner, top of the heap, the acme. And there seems to be a strange kind of national obsession with this particular number. Now, in my opinion, the problem with these numbers is that they are just to close- leaves very little room for everybody else. Just enough to range. So first, I think we should get rid of the value judgements attached to these numbers and recognize that to be a zero is no better, no worse, than to be number one. Because what we are actually looking at here are the building blocks of the Modern Computer Age."

(Anderson, 1994, Stories from the nerve Bible)
(Kommentar til elever på drama 2, jeg vil ikke være barnslig, derfor oppgir jeg referanse...)