{"id":192,"date":"2022-08-05T20:51:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libspry.com\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2022-10-27T22:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T22:24:23","slug":"trance-for-matron","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.libspry.com\/fr\/projects\/trance-for-matron\/","title":{"rendered":"Trance For Matron"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trance For Matron<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/Performer | Lib Spry
Director | Luciana Bucheri
Musician | Dumisizwe Vuyo Bhembe
Set and Costume Designer | Lib Spry<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trance For Matron is about being old, from the point of view of one old woman caught up in an ecological disaster. I performed in a small room with the audience sitting around three of the walls. I was a mere foot or two away from some members of the audience at all times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think the most important thing for me in this piece was my choice to reveal my body. The play was essentially a very slow strip show as the character told the story of her life: how, swept out of her old folks\u2019 home by a tsunami, she has ended up in this room with this group of people. I started covered in plastic and many layers of clothing, and slowly removed layer after layer until, with a send up of a strip act choreographed by Holly Gauthier-Frankel. As I sang along, I took off the last layer of clothing to reveal my old limbs in nothing but a bright red silk petticoat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were mixed feelings about this (minimal) showing of my body. A friend, a decade older than I, was in tears of joy as she felt I had nailed what it feels like to be old, and she was delighted that I had revealed my body. A man in his 30s was horrified that I had done such a thing, which he felt had been an obscene gesture on my part. Who, he asked, on the Fringe comment board, wants to see a woman\u2019s body that old?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libspry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libspry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libspry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libspry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libspry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.libspry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/www.libspry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions\/656"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libspry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libspry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}