The soundtrack is part of the performer, defining their movement and speech rhythms. not just *against* but integrated with) a piece of music. Each of the three scenes is played *with* (i.e. However, this time music and lighting play key parts. The piece contains the chelfitsch trademarks: seemingly unconnected physical movements alongside colloquial, fractured dialogue. Only, all she can talk about is shoes and soap! The conversation literally repeats itself while the two performers’ dance grow more and more harried.įinally we get the farewell speech from the worker leaving the company. Next two workers have a protracted exchange about the air conditioner temperature in the office and who is changing the setting. A lot of their speeches revolve around food preferences, the eponymous listings weekly freesheet, and other idiosyncractic banalities. ![]() ![]() They do not talk they each have monologues in which they move around in unrelated jerks based on everyday gestures. In the first, three temps ( haken staff) discuss the farewell party of a colleague in the break room. This revival of a work first performed in full last year in Berlin and developed from the earlier play Cooler, chelfitsch (aka writer-director Toshiki Okada)’s Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech consists of three semi-connected episodes set in the same office.
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