Performance / Duration: variable
All The Players is a durational performance viewed in parallel with the reading of a script. The script is in future tense. It relates to a scene featuring three characters, which is enacted by five actors - the roles double up, and interchange. The text details their actions, and indicates their thoughts and state of mind. The scene is a power game of sorts between a set of potentially precarious characters.
Once completed the sequence repeats indefinitely. Audience is free to come and go. The script is available for them. Perceptions are intended to shift, as expectations and assupmtions interact with what you read and what you see.
When the live performance is not happening, the setting and script remains on view. The text functions as both a record and a prediction of the presently absent occurrence.
She will momentarily be lost in conflicting thoughts.
She will take a quick look around, without showing her intensions.
Then she will exit.
The sound of a radio will be heard.
The woman with the pink scarf will stand up and leave.
Both men will be anxious, yet neither of them will be willing to admit that.
One of them will exit, and the other one will sit near the plant.
She will go to the door and lock it.
She will look at the others in a joking manner.
Violent thoughts will be crossing her mind.
The others will be smiling at her vaguely.The door handle will move downwards twice.
Then there will be a knock at the door.
The woman with the white hat will reluctantly unlock the door.
