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Matador(a)
Devised and performed by:
Adam Foster and Susan Kempster
Adam Foster and Susan Kempster, a creative partnership comprising, respectively, a playwright and performer and a choreographer and dancer/performer. Together we devise contemporary performance work. Having met on parallel MA programmes at Royal Holloway University of London, we form a charismatic and unusual cross-generational and multidisciplinary duo.
Matador(a)
Framed by the pomp and ceremony of bullfighting and inspired by a catalogue of performers who have died on stage, Matador(a) explores what happens when vacuous spectacle is usurped by genuine liveness. In a world where we find ourselves more emotionally engaged by videos of cute kittens on the internet than unimaginable human tragedies in the distant Third World, we want to challenge our audience to interrogate what they really feel at a time when we are witnessing an arbitrary disintegration of empathy.
Matador (a)
Enmarcado por la pompa y la ceremonia de las corridas de toros e inspirado en un catálogo de artistas que han muerto en el escenario, Matador(a) explora lo que sucede cuando un espectáculo vacío es usurpado por una vida real. En un mundo donde nos encontramos más emocionalmente involucrados con videos de lindos gatitos en Internet que con tragedias humanas inimaginables en el lejano Tercer Mundo, queremos desafiar a nuestro público a interrogar lo que realmente sienten en un momento en que somos testigos a una desintegración arbitraria de la empatía.
