Saturday, March 13, 2010

NZ International Arts Festival 2010 - Revolt of the Mannequins (Day 7)

Days 7 of the Revolt of the Mannequins, by Royal de Luxe, part of the 2010 NZ international Festival of the Arts

Unfortunately, I missed Day 6, but you can still see Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Days 4 and 5.

Closing-Down Sale
Close-Down Sale 7

Close-Down Sale 7 - detail

Close-Down Sale 7 - angle

Evil Tale for Other People's Children
Evil Tale  7 - violinist

Evil Tale 7 - singer

The Comic Fire Brigade
Comic Fire Brigade 7

Comic Fire Brigade 7 - detail

The Angelus, by Millet
Angelus 7 - woman

Angelus 7 - man

Angelus 7 - harvest

Eat Your Soup If You Want To Grow Up Big And Strong
Eat 7

Nightmare of the Puddle
Nightmare 7 - detail

Nightmare 7

The Hunter
Hunter 7

Hunter 7 - hunter

Hunter 7 - hound

The Kitchen
Kitchen 7

The Lovers
Lovers 7

Photobucket censored and deleted the Postive Test photos, presumably due the fact that one of the characters - the new-born child - has a visible, if tiny, penis.

I am a little disturbed by the turn some of these performances are taking, especially The Comic Fire Brigade, Evil Tale for Other People's Children and now even The Lovers: a little too much violence of men on women. They are mannequins, of course, but still... Loving The Angelus, though!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am loving the Revolt of the Mannequins. Did you notice the typo (I ass ume it's a typo) in the newspaper headline the bottoms farmer is reading?

Forget chia pets, I want a packet of those seeds for this Christmas!

C. said...

I think it's a typo within a deliberate typo. It should have read "collasses".

I wish I could have photographed people's reactions to that show: the double and triple takes!