Five Truths: Brook
00:04 - [humming]
01:09 – [watch ticking throughout]
02:58 – [sings] He is dead and gone lady,
He is dead and gone;
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.
[speaks] Pray you mark.
[sings] They bore him barefaced on the bier;
Hey non, nonny, nonny, hey nonny;
And in his grave rained many a tear.
Fare you well my dove.
Fare you well my dove.
04:15 – [speaks] There's rosemary, that's for remembrance;
Pray you love, remember.
There is some violets.
There is some pansies. That's for thoughts.
I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.
They say he made a good end.
Will he not come again. Will he not come again.
No, no. He is dead. Go to thy death bed.
He never will come again.
07:57 – [sings] Dead and gone lady, he is dead and gone;
At his head a grass-green turf…
Five Truths is an immersive video installation in the V&A’s Theatre and Performance Galleries. The films are inspired by five of the 20th century’s most influential theatre directors: Constantin Stanislavski; Antonin Artaud; Bertolt Brecht; Jerzy Grotowski; and Peter Brook. Five Truths examines how each of the five practitioners would direct the actress playing Ophelia in the famous mad scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Each film is directed by Katie Mitchell, and Ophelia is played by Michelle Terry.
The five films (10 screens) are designed to run simultaneously in the installation.
Five Truths, 12 July - 29 August 2011, Theatre & Performance, room 103, Free admission.
The films are inspired by five of the 20th century’s most influential theatre directors: Constantin Stanislavski; Antonin Artaud; Bertolt Brecht; Jerzy Grotowski; and Peter Brook.
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