Moving through nine levels of a house from attic to cellar, Matin Après-Midi explores the nature of habit and domestic ritual.
Characters in each room respond to the constant rhythm of the hours, testing the boundaries of control and freedom within time.
As the day’s activities unfold some revel in letting time run through them, lost in their endless hours of leisure; others are bound by a constant call to work, the day’s tasks never ending.
Ultimately all are subordinate to time, trapped by its inexorable progress.
Matin Après-Midi is the latest in a series of performance works that examine the tension between the repetitive and the continuous and toy with the juxtaposition of the finite and the infinite.
Performed at Camden People’s Theatre, 13th-15th November 2006, part of
A Festival of Contemporary Performance.
