Post by Pei Qin on Feb 1, 2017 21:39:43 GMT 8
A pastiche indeed, a mish-mash of performance modes - something to encourage our own experimentations and risk-taking!
Link here to Arts Equator's review
Extract: "There are so many performance modes packed into the approximately 70 minutes of FIGHT! PALAST #membersonly – confessional monologue, workshops, live fighting, interactive sketches – that it is difficult to classify. Performance makers have been using this form of super-hybridity for a while now, but it still takes some getting used to, sitting in the stalls.
The work played with fiction and autobiography, heady irony and grounded honesty, character and caricature, the rehearsed and the improvised. The dichotomous lines between these is entirely obscured. Overwhelming as the experience felt at points, it is commendable how deftly Swiss theatre company PENG! Palast’s Nina Kohler, Christoph Keller and Dennis Schwabenland juggle various modes of performance."
Link here to Michael's review
Extract: "If I had to categorize or label Fight! Palast, I would consider it to be less of a performance and more of an experience. Minutes into the show, I found myself moulting out of my role as an audience and engaging with the Peng! Palast trio as just another participant in a communal activity with three hosts. One likes cooking, another likes exercising, the last prefers to work on plaster art, and all of them bond over the universal artist’s struggle: to live for their work while working for their lives. Furthermore, in the post-show workshop (that lasted longer than the show itself), it was clear that this group was entirely committed to combating the conventions of actor and audience."
Link here to Arts Equator's review
Extract: "There are so many performance modes packed into the approximately 70 minutes of FIGHT! PALAST #membersonly – confessional monologue, workshops, live fighting, interactive sketches – that it is difficult to classify. Performance makers have been using this form of super-hybridity for a while now, but it still takes some getting used to, sitting in the stalls.
The work played with fiction and autobiography, heady irony and grounded honesty, character and caricature, the rehearsed and the improvised. The dichotomous lines between these is entirely obscured. Overwhelming as the experience felt at points, it is commendable how deftly Swiss theatre company PENG! Palast’s Nina Kohler, Christoph Keller and Dennis Schwabenland juggle various modes of performance."
Link here to Michael's review
Extract: "If I had to categorize or label Fight! Palast, I would consider it to be less of a performance and more of an experience. Minutes into the show, I found myself moulting out of my role as an audience and engaging with the Peng! Palast trio as just another participant in a communal activity with three hosts. One likes cooking, another likes exercising, the last prefers to work on plaster art, and all of them bond over the universal artist’s struggle: to live for their work while working for their lives. Furthermore, in the post-show workshop (that lasted longer than the show itself), it was clear that this group was entirely committed to combating the conventions of actor and audience."