Work On Resigning Ensemble presents 'I'm Always With You' | 8th July 8pm | 9th July 3pm, 8pm | Aliwal Arts Centre MPH
Split Theatre’s Work On Resigning Ensemble presents I’m Always With You, a performance in response to Haresh Sharma’s Sea, originally created and presented by The Necessary Stage.
8 actors find themselves on a boat. A cacophony of stories, songs, and movement emerges. Will you ride the wave with me? Will you promise to be here? A trace right there - it disappears. Peace, be still.
Watch how each of our eight Singaporean archetypes navigate their world - holding on tightly to who they think they are, while gradually letting go of their self-importance as they relate to another.
8th July 2022 - 8pm
9th July 2022 - 3pm, 8pm
Aliwal Arts Centre Multi-Purpose Hall
This performance is approximately 60 minutes without intermission.
IMDA rating: Advisory 16 (Coarse Language and Some Sexual References)
Split Theatre’s Work On Resigning Ensemble presents I’m Always With You, a performance in response to Haresh Sharma’s Sea, originally created and presented by The Necessary Stage.
8 actors find themselves on a boat. A cacophony of stories, songs, and movement emerges. Will you ride the wave with me? Will you promise to be here? A trace right there - it disappears. Peace, be still.
Watch how each of our eight Singaporean archetypes navigate their world - holding on tightly to who they think they are, while gradually letting go of their self-importance as they relate to another.
8th July 2022 - 8pm
9th July 2022 - 3pm, 8pm
Aliwal Arts Centre Multi-Purpose Hall
This performance is approximately 60 minutes without intermission.
IMDA rating: Advisory 16 (Coarse Language and Some Sexual References)
Split Theatre’s Work On Resigning Ensemble presents I’m Always With You, a performance in response to Haresh Sharma’s Sea, originally created and presented by The Necessary Stage.
8 actors find themselves on a boat. A cacophony of stories, songs, and movement emerges. Will you ride the wave with me? Will you promise to be here? A trace right there - it disappears. Peace, be still.
Watch how each of our eight Singaporean archetypes navigate their world - holding on tightly to who they think they are, while gradually letting go of their self-importance as they relate to another.
8th July 2022 - 8pm
9th July 2022 - 3pm, 8pm
Aliwal Arts Centre Multi-Purpose Hall
This performance is approximately 60 minutes without intermission.
IMDA rating: Advisory 16 (Coarse Language and Some Sexual References)
Look past the raging seas: the urine, condom, and sperm; strip down society to its barest, and you’ll find what remains: the human relation.
Fen We’re surrounded by water.
Tarcy Ice.
Fen If I were to drink all the water from the sea…
Tarcy You’ll be very fat.
FEN starts to drink.
Tarcy People shit inside here. Got urine. Got condom. Sperm.
Fen I’m thirsty.
…
Tarcy If you suck all the water you know what is underneath?
Fen The two of us.
Tarcy Yah.
Fen The two of us.
Pause.
Tarcy Che.
Fen Yah.
Tarcy I love you.
[Excerpt taken from Haresh Sharma’s Sea]
See below an exchange between Jerzy Grotowski and Andrzej Bonarski, during which Grotowski describes his “transition from someone who depended on domination to prove [his] existence” to someone capable of opening himself to another human being.
JG: Most likely the central problem of my non-existence was that I felt a lack of relationship with others, because any relationship I had was not completely real. And the more domination there was on my side, the more it had to be unreal.
AB: You were afraid of people?
JG: Yes.
AB: You were afraid of people, you didn’t love them or yourself?
JG: I loved them so much it sometimes seemed to me that I would die - from despair. Then again I didn’t love them and was afraid. Occasionally, there was aggression: since you don’t love me, I will hate you. … What appeared to be an interest in the art of acting proved to be a search for and discovery of partnership … - with Someone, someone else - and someone who, in the moment of action, at the time of work, I defined them in words used to define God. At that time this meant, for me - the son of man. Everything was transformed, became dramatic and painful, and there was still something of a predatory nature. But it was already something very different. And then there was a fading away” (qtd. in James Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta’s Jerzy Grotowski).
It’s a constant struggle to let go of ourselves to find that in-between, so that we can relate to another person on levelled ground.
Come join us at Aliwal Arts Centre this July to find the in-between: hold on tightly, let go lightly.