Theatre in the casino
Afterwords: Jonathan Burrows and Jan Ritsema: Weak Dance Strong Questions
A selection of the texts by Jeroen Peeters is available on Sarma, in a slightly edited version, sometimes with a postscript. Two essays elucidate the project Afterwords and reflect on its poetical and political implications. To retrieve the material, search under: ‘Afterwords’.
Weak Dance Strong Questions is to be performed on location (so not in a traditional theatre), in this case a former casino. A place where one goes in with money to end up playing games, or sometimes to end up with tragedy – addiction or bankruptcy.
Money. Proposed is not an image or a story, rather a flux of movements, gestures, postures, sounds, noises, perceptions, questions,... a landscape based on exchange, a horizontal structure, a very economy so to speak.
Games. Weak Dance Strong Questions is not merely cerebral though; it is funny, its movements are as a game of hopscotch, or whatever kind of odd game. A "Caucus Race" maybe, to speak with Lewis Carroll: there are no clear rules, there are no winners or losers, it just starts and ends at a sudden point.
The addiction? Probably theatre.
The bankruptcy? Probably theatre.
The tragedy then? Being addicted to theatre, driven by the volition to speak about its bankruptcy?