Branch Nebula’s ARTWORK. Photo credit: Zan Wimberley.
An ambitious new production by cross-disciplinary company Branch Nebula, ARTWORK places eight ordinary, unemployed job-hunters on stage each night, in a work which interrogates what is real, what is performance, and what it means to watch.
Like Lucy Guerin Inc’s Untrained and post’s Oedipus Schmoedipus before it, the production’s strength lies in the unpolished performances of everyday people, which raises the question: do we no longer need trained performers?