15-23 Aug at 9:30 pm
Summerhall (venue 26), Courtyard / 1 Summerhall (EH9 1PL) Tickets: 10/8 £
Box office: 0845 874 3001
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
Age restrictions: none
Mouth to Mouth Republic's Cadillac
Accompanied by live music, Cadillac is an outdoor performance suitable for a city square, a busy road, or a courtyard. It is a lottery-show, similar to the Wheel Of Fortune, and its main main prize is the Cadillac.
The rules are simple: everyone who buys a ticket and takes part in the lottery, has a chance of winning the iconic car. Will you lose or will you win? Is this a fair game? Would you be asking such questions with the priceless Cadillac within your grasp? Cadillac is a performance about the blind lust for wealth, love, power and happiness. It’s about ‘money-grabbers’ who know how to create demand and use it to serve their own purposes.
There is no doubt that the authors of Cadillac are familiar with the traps as well as the spells of popular culture: they do not avoid it, nor are they ashamed of it. They take up its fragments and make them into a theatre. You are not faced with a dishonest indignation towards mediocrity of pop imagery. Today, no one can escape from the power of mass imagination - the authors of the performance and its spectators all watch quiz shows. It is not a dubious performance, nor does it give the audiences the slightest chance of leaving anything understated. Just like a quiz show – it makes you struggle with Blind Fate without a chance for catharsis.
Agata Skórzyńska, Gazeta Wyborcza
Teatr Usta Usta Republika (Mouth to Mouth Republic Theatre) set up their own independent creative work in the year 2000. The projects created by Mouth to Mouth Republic Theatre force the audience to be an active participant of the theatre. According to Joanna Derkaczew, a known Polish theatre critic, in the group's performances "the division between the person who creates and constrains and the person who acquiescently accepts the vision of a creator disappears." Wiński plays with the spectators, leaving a space for their autonomous reactions and choices in the script. The drama unravels as a result of the decisions of the audience.