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CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE MAKING
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY
JUNE-SEPTEMBER 2012
An absurd performance
General Information
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So here I am, understanding Performance Artas a person under a chair.
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Introduction
The following is a description of the experience inside the box, which was not a box, but a
washing machine. The invitation of Doctor Faustroll was a marvellous opportunity to navigate a
bed for the first time by dry land. Also, after all these great artists I met and of course thinking
about my family and my roots, I found imaginary solutions in objects and how performance is
related to God.
Thank you for being part of this!
Paulina
London, summer 2012.
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Synopsys
The performer, a
pauliphysician, tells how
Dr. Faustroll invited her to
Europe so she could meet
fantastic characters and
artists.
A fragmented mixture of
Alfred Jarrys texts with
live music, where Paulinaplays to trace her roots
and professional
exploration, also
explaining how
performance is related to
God.
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CharactersThe piece kept the original idea of using characters and
a bit of story-telling with Paulinas personae.
Edelmira is a social worker, one character created in
Mexico and who makes reports on houses and has
some waves on the volume on her speech. She was
perfect to make the intro wearing a pair of slightly
different- glasses than the ones she normally uses.
Paulina is the main character, she is the storyteller of
her own life. Quick speaker, gesture and performance
maker; a friendly Mexican and Pauliphysician who came
to study in London.
Doctor Faustroll is the genius, the engineer who made
the calculations to navigate a bed and find with Paulina
the explanations for performance. He also killed Bose
de Nage imaginarily after getting mad with Paulinas
directions.
Pere Ubu is the representation of a terrible dictator, but
also the first pataphysician, who in Ubu Cuckolded
(1944) presents himself as such.
Ma Ubu is also a cartoon; she is the not nice wife who
in Jarrys plays is also a bit mean and selfish. In this
piece she just tells Pere Ubu he is a dirty old man in a
funny attempt of French accent.
Also there is a reference to Bose de Nage made by
Paulina, but he does not appear embodied. According
to this piece, is the baboon who only sais ha, ha
during his interaction with Paulina directing and who
dies and then comes back to agree with the Cerdi-Cerdi
song explanations.
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Exploits and Opinions of a Pauliphysician. A Non Scientific Performance
Description
A collaborative performance, a comedy based in absurd and identity. Is a onewoman show, combined with live music to create some real, unreal and funnysituations around Paulinas life.
The purpose is to interrogate the nature of performance itself also bringing aboutsources and redefining them, that is why Pataphysics is brought to a contemporaryscene. Also the fact of having live music gives an aesthetic element to the piece.
A performance written by Paulina Lara Franco, using lines from Alfred Jarrys1pieces.
Thematic
An approach to Pataphysics connecting this science of the particular with identityand autobiography.
Synopsys
The performer, a pauliphysician, tells how Dr. Faustroll invited her to Europe so shecould meet fantastic characters and artists.
A fragmented mixture of Alfred Jarrys texts with live music, where Paulina plays totrace her roots and professional exploration, also explaining how performance is
related to God.
Purposes and pertinence
Performing a monologue on stage, bringing live music and the use of objects as partof the piece; bringing theatre of the absurd as an aesthetic approach back to
contemporary practices.
Entertain the audience by the movement, gesture and funny clothing used in absurdways from time to time.
This project is important for the maker because she explores a way of devising withtext, identity and biography using some absurd elements and a collaborativeenvironment.
We would like to find alternative venues to showcase the work giving audiences anenjoyable evening.
1Ubu King and Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll.
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Paulina Lara
Paulina studied in Universidad La Salle Cancn, where she received her BA inCommunication. Founder actress and assistant director in Algaraba Teatro Cancn,with Gina Saldaa as director. Voice-over in Mexican radio shows and audio-visual
productions with FBN Producciones and Bauhaus Boutique Creativa.
At the moment she is producer and anchor-woman in Rockeando en Espaolat Radio Bruneland social correspondent in Revista Horizontal, both of them digitalplatforms of Brunel University and La Salle Cancn, respectively. She is currentlystudying MA in Contemporary Performance Making, interested in writing andproducing her theatrical work.
Her work includes the creation (written, produced and performed) of Hansel andGretel Beyond the Forest, Youth, cool ideas and Exploits and Opinions of aPauliphysician; where she plays with text and devises the piece with the artists
performing.
As a performer she has done work with Hannah Millest (Nothing but smoke), YokoIshiguro (Accommodation and RIP) and Lorie Buckingham in A Taste full space.She has played main roles in plays like Do you smell gas?, Celestine, TheVirtuous Burglar, among others.
Pata-musians
The musicians are interested in creating new rhythms playing with the performance,making the audience follow the choices, the pace of the piece and giving a cabaretand burlesque touch. Elements creating a soundscape according to this absurdjourney.
Technical
Duration: 50 minutes
Comedy
General lighting
Theatrical Space
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Gallery
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