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Reading a Danceplay

To those not accustomed to physical theatre, here are a few pointers:

1. Trust your responses. There aren't definite answers. What you make out of it is what is valuable to you.

2. Make associations. Look for images, metaphors, symbols. Arms stretched out... look like a bird... fly, freedom...

3. Focus on experience not analysis. Your senses are not inferior to your logical mind.

4. I treat theatre as a detective game. The play reveals clues which I piece together in my mind to form a whole. These clues may be "they are moving very slowly", or a detailed realistic mime or dialogue.

5. Usually it is not trying to be obscure: some things just defy expression in words. Have you ever felt how the words "I love you" limit your intentions and emotions?

6. Talk to others about it. Theatre is a collective experience. Read reviews - think it over, ask others' opinions, disagree with it.

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Two lovers, one is HIV-positive. Who is this PWA? Does he despair or laugh? Is he abandoned, or loved? Does he abandon, or love?

As love in real life goes, they don't agree on how to approach life with HIV. Each discovers his own revelations on existence and relationships.

They may not be the only two characters. Each allude to different experiences of PWAs who have disclosed their life stories - and a PWA, Person Living With Aids, is not necessarily HIV-positive. We all live with HIV/Aids, on one level or another.

In the theatre, voices from many people intersect to inform the central narrative of the two lovers.

Note that this danceplay is a fictitious story, not a documentary of the lives of Jac Wall and David Kemmeries.



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