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Caden Manson

CADEN MANSON  

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below is a list of Caden Manson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Broke House         Dead Set 3         Sos

Broke House

Synopsis:
Broke House explores the process of construction, when that process becomes sharply interrupted by historical events, and dissolves into the shapelessness of an aftermath. Those processes that were building previous to the plays beginning include a life, a family, architecture, or a system of beliefs, an economy of values, and the creation of the performance itself. But when events intervene - events like collapse, upheaval, disaster, abandonment, forgetting, fear, and strife - all the raw materials and the players themselves become deformed into a new formlessness, and enter a transitional state of potentiality. Like the pause loop in a video game, Broke House takes place in this marginal time zone. Like all of Big art Groups works, Broke House offers their meditation on the current states of America, which they believe have been in flux for at least as long as their ensemble has been up and running. Beyond the topical symptoms of foreclosure crises, credit crises, occupy movements and extremist rhetoric, we suppose that the metaphorical heart of the country has been suffering, and perhaps has decided to rebuild the body that surrounds it.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Created By: Caden Manson, Jemma Nelson, Big Art Group

1st Produced:
abrons Arts Center, 465 Grand Street, New York    06 Apr 2012

Organisations:
Big art Group

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Dead Set 3

Synopsis:
In Dead Set 3, Manson focuses on serial narratives, corrupt systems, and perverted worldviews that ignore the degradation, collapse, and destruction of present society. Individual histories and public spectacles play out on a stage that amplifies these narratives through distribution, duplication, and repetition. Incorporating multiple channels of video displayed on stacked, semi-transparent moving screens, Dead Set 3 includes both sampled and real-time video projections, which are controlled by the performers and integrate rock-and-roll stage effects, homemade Hollywood special effects, TV studio lighting, and collaged live images. Movement in the performance is derived from cut, spliced, and copied footage from mass media television programs, newscasts, and documentary footage. With the performers on stage generating live projections on screen, multiple narratives are layered, forcing the audience to make constant decisions on where to focus their attention.
Company

Notes:
devised by Caden Manson And Big Art Group. This show is part of the Under the Radar Festival.

1st Produced:
The Kitchen, NY    2007

Organisations:
Big art Group

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Sos

Synopsis:
SOS is an investigation into the nature of sacrifice within a supersaturated, hyper-acquisitive society. Set in a theatrical space that plays with the idea of representation, where the cables and cameras of surveillance appear as a forest of technology, the performance unwinds through overlapping abstract narratives. animals (played by actors in plushy costumes and body mounted cameras) pushed from their native habitat turn on each other in a hopeless contest for survival. Televised Trans-Variant Revolutionaries from the Realness Liberation Front broadcasting in a skeletal studio implode under the pressure and failure of their own rhetoric. Social networking addicts enmeshed in a self-created universe seek escape from a tightening web of perception. as these scenarios vibrate against one another, the action transforms into a celebration of renewal though chaos. In SOS, Big art Group further develops its real-time film technique, a conceptual model conflating live performance, television, and movies. The unique methodology combines live performance with video, cinematic composition, and controlled perspective with the realism of TV broadcast
- press release

Notes:
created by Caden Manson And Jemma Nelson

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Big art Group

1st Published:
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Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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