DRUGAJANJE: Tim Etchells & Ant Hampton: NOT TO SCALE
audio performance (Great Britain) The audio performance Not to scale brings together two big names of British theatre, Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells. The performance invites two audience members to collaboratively engage in making scribbles and thus co-creating a comic-style drawing of characters, who subsequently come to life on paper, guided by the narrative medium of a female voice. Minimalist set design consisting of just a piece of paper, a pencil, a rubber and an audio recording harbours an imaginative springboard for the audience. It highlights the immense childlike joy of drawing and exploring the infinite possibilities, as well as impossibilities, promised by a piece of paper. Animating a narrative about tiny little men as they live their lives constantly torn between creation and destruction, between life and death. Perforating, drawing, scribbling, copying and making stories that may end up vanishing from a piece of paper or turning out to be not to scale. The performance Not to Scale falls in a separate category called auto-theatre – a term coined together by Ant Hampton and the British-Italian artist Silvia Mecuriali in 2007. It is via audio instructions that the audience runs the performance, and hence auto-performance emerges. All it takes…