Message from your neighbor
SCRIPT
Dear neighbors and guests of honor,
What do you mean by “we are in the train”?
Dear close dear,
The wedding is today!
Dear,
Close friends,
Where should I bake the Apfelstrudel?
My oven broke down.
Dear,
Honor guests,
I HATE YOU
I cannot bake the apfelstrudel in the train.
Script Excerpt. SCRIPT by Gemma Ragués
Pictures by Martin Obrist
Music composition and Script by Gemma Ragués with melody excerpts inspired by Somethin' Stupid from Frank Sinatra and a modified sentence by Kathy Acker from 'Blood and Guts in High School'
For speaking ensemble, text performer and tape, 15'
Premiered and played by Latenz Ensemble and Gemma Ragués
Wedding dress. Vestit de núvia de la Genoveva Querol
2022
Message from your Neighbor presents a cubist story where speech and performance are in dialogue with sound.
A multi-layered conversation between a bride, a neighbor community and a phone answering machine. It combines surrealism, humor and drama - all glued by glimpses of a melody inspired by Frank Sinatra.
The work plays with the superficiality and deepness in human relations.
What is a real friend?
Are your neighbors your friends or are they pretending?
