Rachel Mars Our Carnal Hearts
PHOTO: CLAIRE HAIGH
Sep 13-16, 2018
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Rachel Mars: Our Carnal Hearts September 13-16, 2018 On the Boards, Seattle Running time: 60 min Written and performed by Rachel Mars Arrangements and compositions by Louise Mothersole Directed by Wendy Hubbard and Rachel Mars Sung by Louise Mothersole, Sari Breznau, Fiore Grey, Jocelyn Beausire Lighting designed by Anna Barrett Production and Stage Management by Sorcha Stott-Strzala Produced by Lucy Jackson (US & International) & Rebecca Atkinson-Lord (UK & Europe) rachelmars.org
Our Carnal Hearts has been developed with the support of Arts Council England. Co-commissioned by Cambridge Junction and CPT with further support from American Repertory Theatre, Ovalhouse, Shoreditch Town Hall, and South East Dance in partnership with Jerwood Charitable Trust. Developed in partnership with The Orchard Project (NY), The Royal Court Theatre, and Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal.
Special thanks to Seattle Repertory Theatre and Washington Ensemble Theatre.
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Hello! I’m so glad you’re here. We’re launching into a season of firsts and new programs and I'm grateful to share them with you, the most adventurous audience I know. I'd also like to shout a HUGE welcome to our newest Board Members: Jeanie Chunn, Lance Neely, Zack Hutson, and Kate Murphy. Rachel, Rich, Clare, Beth, Pamala, Jayme, Erica, Sara Ann, Alex, Jenny, Charles, Kim, Eze-Basil, Ben, and I are delighted to welcome you back to On the Boards. Thank you for coming. Let’s see some art.
See you in the lobby, Betsey Brock Executive Director
Filming and photography during the performance is not permitted.
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THE 18/19 SEASON: IMAGE, OBJECT, & GESTURE
In recent years a growing number of multidisciplinary artists have employed performative strategies in their work to interrogate a variety of relevant social and political topics. Contemporary performance has become a working method, a critical framework, and a strategy, rather than simply a medium or discipline. Additionally, many choreographers, performance art, and theater-makers working today consider their practice in a similar vein to visual conceptual artists—performative, collaborative, and multidisciplinary. This shift away from performance as medium or discipline comes at the very moment when many artists and curators are embracing and being fully embraced by technology and visual advertising branding structures. Digital tools are a way to create physical, experiential stories. The creative class is no longer a small elite group of individuals and a handful of alternative art spaces. From largescale advertising firms, to fashion houses and DIY design wearable ventures, to music videos and VR animations or video games, technological devices have blurred and disrupted the boundaries between pop culture, advertising, and art. The distinction between categories in art are not straightforward anymore. The 2018-19 season begins by asking a series of questions: How is meaning made? What actions or gestures create meaning? How are artistic movements made? How do artistic gestures inspire meaning in this world? A season is a shift in climate, or a change in the amount of daylight, or the marking of a point in time which the earth is in relationship to the sun. A season as a collection of artists and ideas presented over the course of a year in a particular setting. The idea of Image, Object, & Gesture is taken up this season as a way to think about the blurring and hybrid distinctions being made in contemporary performance today.
Rachel Cook Artistic Director
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Image In our current image-saturated culture and speculative society, images are endowed with multiple layers of meaning. The image acts as a starting point for thinking about broader questions concerning the way meaning gets attributed not only within art, but also in news, politics, or pop culture. An image is a reflection, a device, and a thing. A photograph is an image, but can a performance be an image? There are physically still moments within a performance, does that constitute an image? Images have the ability to make you slow down, to meditate on them, and sometimes see things differently. Images are hybrid creatures, they have the ability to be multiple things simultaneously. They are hard to pinpoint, as well as hard to pin down. Performance is ephemeral by nature, and yet something about it continues to resonate as an image inside your head.
Through exploring what constitutes these categories—image, object, and gesture—the evolutionary cycle of digital images is reveled. There is a generation of artists that not only inherited the legacy of Conceptual art and a postmodern understanding of society, but they also experienced the explosion and transformation of culture through digital technology. Their work engages with ideas about the hybridization of the image, not as a fixed entity, but as a theoretical notion exploring how information is distributed and experienced, how viewpoints are framed, and how intimate moments get shared. It is within these various contemporary artistic practices, that the status of the image is being contested in unique and provocative ways. Upon first glance Rachel Mars’ work deals with everything but the idea of the image, but as the layers of meaning 5
peel back the idea of how cultural stereotypes get created or how society behaves towards one another comes out as vibrant images in her texts. Mars uses visual spatial tools in order to create an image in the audience’s mind, whether you are seated in the round or watching an episode of a reality television show the way you are situated in the theater space creates a visual image. Additionally, Mars’ pushes our conceptual understanding of how we create images of people, society, or current events.
that comedy doesn’t reveal truths, but rather evades or skewers the full truth of a story in order to make people laugh. Gadsby makes some provocative statements about how the form of a joke functions differently than a narrative, in a joke there is a setup, which builds tension and a release through a punch line, in a narrative there is a beginning, middle, and end. Both forms, comedy and narrative, have the ability to create images of our society, some of which can liberate certain people and humiliate others.
How we consume images today primarily happens through screens, digital animations, or cropped images. These images create and construct narratives, which have the ability to shift our preconceived notions about people, society, or cultural events. The connection between the image and the narrative text is one idea that is central in Mars’ work. How the text creates a sense of a character and how the physical body represents an image of the character or perform are all crucial to how Mars’ artistic practice operates.
Gadsby’s critique of a joke is that it leaves out the complicated, uncertain parts of the story in order to deliver the punch line. Mars, on the other hand, keeps the complicated parts embedded in the narrative in order to create more a nuanced image of the world and dismantle the power of fixed categories, in favor of hybridity and unfixed. Through posing questions and making provocative statements Mars challenges the audience to rethink the images we construct of ourselves, others, and our society.
Text, image, and character are also formal traits of stand-up comedy. Recently the image of comedy was disrupted by Australian stand-up Hannah Gadsby. Her evening length program, Nanette, presents the idea
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Rachel Mars: Our Carnal Hearts Rachel Mars’ feisty, language-based performances confront popular cultural, political frameworks, and societal belief systems with humor, sarcasm, and a sense of playfulness. Many of her works refer to the appearance of her physical body and make reference to her queerness and Jewish cultural heritage. As Mars explains, “The body in my practice is a site of personal histories, inherited behaviors and cultural expectations — both true and invented. Many of my performative images play on the smallness of my frame, and the way that my cultural heritage has written itself large on my face without my consent.” Mars’ body of work largely explores storytelling through theatrical and comedic devices. She primarily works on solo projects alongside a series of long-time collaborations with various artists.
Our Carnal Hearts explores the Sacred Harp tradition of singing fourpart hymns and anthems. In this format the singers are seated in a hollowed square formation, each tonal voice on one side and the song leader in the center. This tradition dates back to country parish music in England that was carried over in the New England colonial era and further expanded to the South. Sacred Harp not only refers to the shape-note hymn book from which the music is sung, but also the human voice as a musical instrument. Using the technique of long-form storytelling, Mars’ and composer Louise Mothersole transform the participatory singing tradition into a lively solo show, stand-up routine, and theatrical performance that simultaneously celebrates and critiques envy. Mars’ narrative combines our collective understanding
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of capitalist, neoliberal competitive culture with her more personal poetic sensibilities. Mars’ describes our current societal form of envy as, “a culmination of fears of scarcity, isolation born from technology, the move from collectivism to individualism and status anxiety derived from consumerism.”
of the tradition is led by a high priest dressed in white who leads everyone through the process of publicly acknowledging your sins. Mars talks about “being in a toxic shit-storm of envy and that it’s not necessarily based on what you do as what you’re seen to do.” It is the cycle of envy that creates feelings of guilt, shame, and taboo, which Mars would rather directly talk about in order to decrease the psychological power the system has over us. Our Carnal Hearts transforms the theater space with an audience into a passionate cleansing ritual that discusses envy as a spiritual redemption.
Our Carnal Hearts investigates ritual traditions of annual repentance through forms of public assembly. On the Boards presentation of Mars’ piece falls in the Jewish calendar of the ten days of awe, also known as the ten days of repentance. These ten days begin with Rosh Hashanah, Hebrew new year, and end with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. During these days the practice of self-reflection, prayer, charity, and engaging in active self-improvement are the main customs. The public assembly portion
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About the artists Rachel Mars is a multi-award winning London based theatre maker. She interrogates the cultural and political constructs that inform the way we operate together. Her recent work has explored envy, queer bodies and ancient sex letters. She has recently shown work at Vooruit (Belgium), Malavoadora (Portugal) and across the UK. In 2017 her company won the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award for ROLLER (Barbican, London), and she won a Total Theatre Award for Innovation for Our Carnal Hearts in Edinburgh. In recent years she been commissioned by The Royal Court, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Fuel
Theatre, and invited to residencies at The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin), The Orchard Project (New York) and Cove Park (UK). She regularly contributes to BBC Radio 2’s ‘Pause for Thought’, has written for The Stage, The Guardian, The Lark, and The Jewish Chronicle, and is a fellow of the Birkbeck University Centre for Contemporary Theatre. Louise Mothersole is a performance artist and one half of award-winning duo Sh!t Theatre. Their last two shows, Letters to Windsor House and DollyWould, were published by Oberon Books. Louise is also a 8
lighting designer, theatre technician and freelance composer. She has written songs and music for Stacy Makishi, Lois Weaver, Duckie at the Barbican and for a project with the RSC.
Jocelyn Beausire is an artist, performer, designer, and musician originally from the Midwest. Having earned degrees in Architecture and Vocal Music at the University of Washington, Jocelyn’s current research and performance art applies process-based compositional techniques to link constructions of space, gender, and sound. She has performed with groups such as Pacific MusicWorks, the Seattle Symphony, and the UW Chamber Singers, and her performance art has been featured in 12 Minutes Max.
Sorcha Mae Stott-Strzala is a lighting designer, theatre technician and curator based in London. Sorcha likes experimental, queer work that challenges audiences’ perception and crosses the boundaries between visual arts and live arts. Having worked in the tech box designing lights whilst completing her MFA Curating at Goldsmiths, these two aspects of her professional career intersect, inform and influence each other. The liveness and care for each other that is prevalent in theatre is brought out in her performance curating, whilst in turn, a curatorial mindset is applied when working on lighting designs. She has worked with — amongst others — Malik Nashad Sharpe, Lucy McCormick, Sink The Pink, Chris Goode, Rosanna Cade, Figs in Wigs, Rachel Mars, Jonny Woo, and Rachael Clerke.
Sari Breznau is a music director, stage-craftsperson, and multi-instrumentalist best known for her work with Circus Contraption, Orkestar Zirkonium, Future Fridays, Beats Antique, Moonshine Revival Tent, Cherdonna, and the Singing in the Rain Family Choir. Fiore Grey is a singer with an affinity for cross-collaboration. Recent appearances include On the Boards’ NW New Works Festival, DAIPAN Butoh, Fable Collections’ Tales of Darkness, which she also produced, Boulder International Fringe Festival, Lightbox Kulturhaus, and Without Léona, a short film which she also directed. A member of Dunava, an ensemble specializing in Eastern European a cappella folk song, she’s been at work since 2012 on a performance project based on Breton’s Nadja.
Lucy Jackson is an independent performing arts producer. She is Producing Director for The Assembly (Seagullmachine at La MaMa; HOME/ SICK at JACK in Brooklyn & LA on tour). Other recent producing includes Heather Christian (Animal Wisdom at the Bushwick Starr), the TEAM (RoosevElvis on tour) and for PerformancePractice.org. She is a member of the 2018-20 WP Theater Lab. Upcoming: Intelligence by Helen Banner, directed by Jess Chayes as part of New York Theatre Workshop’s Next Door Season, January 2019. More at www.lsajackson.com
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