Quantum Configurations in Nick Payne’s Constellations

Campos, Liliane

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“…As Liliane Campos has noted, the play "creates a space for the spectator's active gaze, inviting us to group [Payne's] fragments together and to find new meanings in the constellations they produce and the transformations they effect upon each other"-a dramatic structure well-suited to Wang's intervention against immersion. 37 Wang's production and its set design (by Ji Linlin and Di Tianyi) accentuated this aspect of the dramatic text by relegating its two actors to a low, circular white platform at the center of a ring of twelve cameras on tripods of different heights, arranged to resemble the numbers on a clockface 38 (Fig. 3).…”

Section: Theatre Intimacy and Pandemic Temporalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wang Chong and the Theatre of Immediacy: Technology, Performance, and Intimacy in Crisis

Li-Min

2021

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In early January 2020, when Chinese theatre director Wang Chong (b. 1982) arrived in New York to remount his production of Nick Payne's Constellations for the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, he couldn't have predicted that this would be the last time for months that he would watch his actors from the middle of a full house. By the time his work-in-progress solo show, Made in China 2.0, opened at the Asia TOPA Festival in Melbourne, Australia, at the end of that February, it was clear that there would be no live theatre in Wang's hometown of Beijing for some time. All of China was on lockdown as the disease now tragically familiar as COVID-19 swept the country. Then, as Wang returned to Beijing in early March, businesses around the globe were shuttering, theatres were going dark, and theatre artists were confronting an unprecedented challenge to their personal safety, livelihoods, and ability to make meaningful art. In short order, some well-resourced theatre institutions began to stream performance recordings and reconfigure their seasons for online platforms. Only a month after returning home, Wang Chong joined this mass online movement with his production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, streamed live on 5–6 April 2020 as Dengdai Geduo.

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confidence: 99%