The Risk of Listening

“Politics; a giant reality TV show. Don’t you think we need a theatre that shows us this?”
 

Using his actors to create the script by writing down every utterance or thought they have, Tao Wells collects their verbatim, slicing and dicing to create an entirely new script with alternating scenes. Only on the night of the performance do the actors come together to read this remixed version for the first time.
 

"I have taken the elements of theatre and shifted them slightly... The original notion of the arts doing a good deed in purging dangerous emotions from a populace is reversed. I uncover these emotions, but I ask the audience to take responsibility for them, till the wheels of the theatre fall off." - Tao Wells

“This felt like art should, as an event and an experience. Immersive, alive, challenging... veering from hilarity to disbelief to other things. Unusual, and probably not for everyone..” - undulatingungulate.com

Tao Wells calls himself a Community Conceptualist, Conceptual Abstract Expressionist or A Public Relation Specialist (take your pick). More »

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