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A favourite device of Shakespeare’s, the play-within-a-play describes a scenario in which the characters of a theatrical production mount their own theatrical production that we, the audience, watch alongside them. By parroting its own structure, the play-within-a-play implicates audiences into theatre’s artifice, creating a mise en abyme in which, to bastardize Shakespeare, the whole world becomes a stage. Dress Parade picks apart this famous adage to explore the relationship between performer and audience, observer and observed, on stage and off. This troupe of eleven artists approach questions of theatricality and performance through painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture. The works presented are both deadly serious and tongue-in-cheek, totally surreal and completely mundane. Together they offer a peek behind the curtain of a production in which we are all merely players.
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A favourite device of Shakespeare’s, the play-within-a-play describes a scenario in which the characters of a theatrical production mount their own theatrical production that we, the audience, watch alongside them. By parroting its own structure, the play-within-a-play implicates audiences into theatre’s artifice, creating a mise en abyme in which, to bastardize Shakespeare, the whole world becomes a stage. Dress Parade picks apart this famous adage to explore the relationship between performer and audience, observer and observed, on stage and off. This troupe of eleven artists approach questions of theatricality and performance through painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture. The works presented are both deadly serious and tongue-in-cheek, totally surreal and completely mundane. Together they offer a peek behind the curtain of a production in which we are all merely players.
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