Drawing from Life 18+ only (contains nudity)
What goes on in a life drawing class? The participants gather with pads and pencils to draw the model. Our model is Alice. She stands. She sits. She lies down. She changes position in a variety of poses; for thirty seconds, for a minute, for three minutes as participants sketch her.
What are they thinking about as they sketch her? Who are they? There’s a hubbub of distorted voices off stage that she finds disturbing. Alice can’t hear their thoughts but, in the background, we hear hers. Songs that get on your nerves. Thoughts about the man of her dreams.
Alice is more that a body – a doll to be manipulated into a variety of shapes. She has a life inside that body that connects by threads to participants in the class’ volunteers for the audience who reveal a little bit about themselves.
In this intimate production, the audience are suppled with pads and pencils and asked to make sketches, spectate, or participate when invited. It’s a fascinating insight into what lies beneath the skin that challenges its audience to go deeper or even have a go themselves.
Reviewed by David Kerr
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