Shipwreck
The photographs are captioned with the relevant section of Richard Negri's script,
written in longhand after the performance with the intention of future development
and performance elsewhere.


All the people have formed a line across the stage and are on their haunches swaying as they
chant. The Gigolo and Schoolgirl are seated the same but in front facing the line – but not
chanting. The Guru marks their foreheads with his thumb as some sort of imitation anointing. As
this chanting has been in progress, the Clown/Death has been crossing and recrossing diagonally
across the stage – U/S R scooping handfuls of wet sand into the small piece of veil, carrying
over DSL behind the chanters and splatting it down – as if attempting to remove all the sand
from one side of the beach to the other. He vocalises his footsteps across the sand and the
splat of wet sand dollops that he deposits – all these sounds forming a lunatic, mesmerising
musicality.