Is it possible to create a thrilling theatre performance from the most trivial biography? The unconventional New York group Nature Theater of Oklahoma, powered by its two directors, Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, do just this! And how! Last season a wave of enthusiasm rolled through our Theatre Studio when the first episode of 'Life and Times' was shown: the libretto was a sung telephone conversation with one of the actresses. Recorded and written down word for word with all the accompanying pauses and hesitations. Now, and following the childhood years, episode 2 brings you all the spicey details of her puberty, her changing body, her first love, her first secret cigarette and so on. The main character is played by various performers, including the dancer Fumiyo Ikeda, who is also a creative mainstay of Rosas.
In a combination of infectious performance pleasure and dead seriousness, the group, dressed in brightly coloured Adidas sportswear and accompanied by synthesizer music, perform even the most banal and trivial details. Because the telephone conversation is staged in its entirety! And this is only the second episode in a series comprising no fewer than ten parts.