Serpentine South Gallery 25 Sep 2009 Free

A performance of The Party, a play by American artist Alexis Marguerite Teplin, with texts by Pablo Lafuente, Michael Ned Holte and Rachel Kushner.

The Party was conceived as a collaborative project in the tradition of The Theatre of the Absurd and includes characters of an artist, designer, philosopher/critic and ingenue.

THE CAST
(in order of appearance)

LUDOVIC… Jamie Bradley
ELSA… Martha Swann
UNDINE… Alexis Marguerite Teplin
PAUL… Tom Mison

Act I

The Chorus (P., E., L. and U.)
By Michael Ned Holte

Act II

The Party
By Pablo Lafuente and Alexis Marguerite Teplin

Act III

Cut Off Your Shirt (Undine’s Song)
By Rachel Kushner

Set Design
Noah Sherwood

Park Nights 2009

Park Nights is an annual series of events staged every Friday night in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. The 2009 programme included music, theatre, performances, talks and film screenings. The season culminated in October with Poetry Marathon, the latest in the Gallery’s acclaimed series of Marathons, conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery Co-Director.

All events were held in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA.

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