Surveillance Camera Players...

The Loony Bin ( loonies@bloodaxe.com )
Mon, 27 Jan 03 02:36:47 -0000


Hiya Loonies...

Today we meet some people with an all-new approach to CCTV and
surveillance cameras...this was sent in by Kathleen...

Wishes & Dreams...

- ANDREA
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>From the National Post, Jan 3, 2003 (p. AL6) Neil Hrab
   
How do you like being watched? - World Sousveillance Day - Activists
turn the tables on surveillance cameras.
    
The New York Surveillance Camera Players have pioneered an interesting
form of protest to being under constant surveillance by security cameras
in public places; they perform specially adapted versions of famous
plays under their unblinking gaze. 

The SCP troupe has played many times since 1996 to anonymous audiences
of New York policemen and private security guards who monitor the
cameras. Their web site <http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html> has
useful information for those thinking of staging their own security
camera dramas. 

To perform Beckett's Waiting for Godot, for example, SCP says you will
need to have "two actors, wearing signs that identify them as ESTRAGON
and VLADIMIR, respectively, sit or kneel beneath a third actor who is
wearing a sign that says THE TREE." The directions are simple: "Estragon
and Vladimir knock each other around, switch positions, chase each other
around the tree, etc." The SCP's amusing site has additional synopses
for works by Orwell, Poe and Jerzy Kosinski.


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