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Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first
Written and directed by Tim Etchells
Performed by Jim Fletcher
The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street
Photo credit: Hugo Glendinning
“Socks are gloves for the feet. Snow is cold. Water is the same thing as ice. In America things are bigger. America is a country. Korea is also a country. Some men have sex appeal. Blind people cannot see anything. Burglars are men that go into houses and take things which do not belong to them.”
Sight is the sense… is a long, free-associating monologue that tumbles from topic to topic to create a vast failing explanation of the world. Comical in its apparent naiveté and preposterously encyclopedic in scope, it exposes the absurdity and horror of consciousness as it tries and fails to define everything that it encounters. A shifting, personal and decidedly imprecise taxonomy, the project might be thought of as an explanation of the world as if for (or by) a child, a psychotic or a Martian.
Tim Etchells is the leader of the UK’s celebrated experimental performance group Forced entertainment. Etchells is also an acclaimed visual artist and his first novel, The Broken World, was published by Heinemann, UK, in July 2008.The text is performed by Jim Fletcher, the New York based actor who has performed in Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz and Richard Maxwell’s Ode to the Man who Kneels.
Running time: 60 minutes.
Seating is general admission for all UTR shows at The Public. Seats are available on a first-come, first served basis. Service fees apply for phone and online orders. Latecomers are seated at the discretion of house management, so arrive early.
| Thursday, January 8 | 3:00pm |
| Saturday, January 10 | 7:00pm |
| Sunday, January 11 | 1:30pm |