Date:Time
Collective: Unconscious, New York, 1996
with: Caitlin Hahn, Susan James, Tracy Leipold, and Amber Lasciak.
Exploding Moment’s first production comprised four scenes, presented simultaneously as separate corners of a square set, all reflecting on the themes of the performance of identity: an enactment of Ring Lardner’s epistolary short story “Some Like Them Cold,” a depiction of a series of interviews (with one performer playing all the parts), a portrayal the character Gudrun Brangwen in D.H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love,” and a recitation of the Wampanoag hearings explored in James Clifford’s “The Predicament of Culture.”
Audience members moved through aisles between the four subsets or around the parameter of the larger set. There was limited visibility from one set area to another, compelling viewers to be conscious of the choices they made about what elements of Date:Time they would experience.