Mimes
Polyvocal
– see performance note
[Mime a]
overwhelming strength
of aspiration
apocalyptic,
cannibalistic,
sequence, rapidly
disintegrating, awareness
[Mime b]
spontaneity stuck in
the past
explorations of
counterpoint without compassion
[Mime c]
a sunlit garden in a
natural world;
characterised shrewdly
and delivered;
receiving
widespread systematised bombardment;
apparent emissions,
admissions;
disease detected;
level of alarm crushing;
war against
the lost and stolen,
outlining contours
in surrounding;
securing mood
music and general application
[Mime d]
response to
surveillance allowing knowledge
to spread defects moving
towards benefit
struck by an
immoral state
[Mime e]
sun breaks through after a
wintry night:
a dull morning with
brisk wind;
underlying stone an
impression of brightness
Performance note
The subtitles - “Mime
a, b, c, c, e” are reference labels and are not uttered; there should just be a
long pause between each piece, the five read as one piece.
The poem is
polyvocal, but freely: there are no written parts. It is suggested that there
is a 'primary' performer, a leader who starts each mime with other contributors
following on, preferably with the primary performer at higher volume than the
others. The primary performer will read all the text [but not the
labels!].
There may be a
different primary performer for each of the five mimes.
The emboldened text
might be left for the primary performer(s) alone or for them to complete
before contributors follow, i.e. the contributors would read after a delay the
length of which is the time it takes the primary performer to read their text.
NB Text has been emboldened just for this purpose and that formatting has no
other significance if it is not followed in this way.
Contributors may
select some or all of the text to read – different contributors may select
different text to the others and spread out physically in whatever space is
available.
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