| Scarface by Eddie Ladd |
| First presented in 2000 by eddie ladd |
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synopsis: Scarface is an hour long dance theatre multi-media show based on Brian de Palma's classic 1983 film of the same name. It is a tribute to the trash aesthetic, excess and method acting. The performance is based around colour separation overlay (CSO) technology. The space is divided between a blue CSO screen and a white projection screen. The performer works against a blue screen, a somewhere which is nowhere, has no orientation and is not a "real" space. The performer does not make a finished performance, she supplies material for the finished performance, which is created on the white projection screen. In this "real" space, the performer, the setting and the soundtrack are finally locked together through video and sound mixing. Scarface is about film and film acting and is strongly influenced by film choreography. It features action sequences and stuntwork and attempts almost unperformable passages based on rapid film-editing. In contrast to these wide shot set-pieces, there is also tight shot, detailed and intimate work close to camera. The show is a tribute to the film's lead actor Al Pacino, with the female performer getting as close as she can to a male Hollywood icon through physical imitation, lipsynching and vocal pitch shifting. The text is in Welsh, dialect Welsh and bad English and, in keeping with the original, is riddled with expletives (writer Oliver Stone included 100 f**** in his filmscript to which Al Pacino added another 150). |
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