For over fifteen years, the ensemble of New York-based artists known as the Wooster Group (whose members number Jim Clayburgh Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth LeCompte, Peyton Smith, Kate Valk, and Ron Vawter) have created a series of theatre works that are both televisual and theatrical in scope.
These works deploy film, video, music, dance and written text in a collage form that is heavily dependent on outside media elements and amplified sound for the way they are shaped on stage. White Homeland Commando is the group's first full-length video piece conceived completely outside of a live performance. It revolves around the infiltration of a white supremacist organisation by a special unit of the police and is constructed in a challenging cross-cutting style in which the complex inter-connected plot-lines are developed alongside more familiar TV thriller conventions.
Powerful, provocative and starkly compelling, White Homeland Commando is a highly original and impressive work that makes one look forward to further Wooster Group video productions.
[LESS]For over fifteen years, the ensemble of New York-based artists known as the Wooster Group (whose members number Jim Clayburgh Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth LeCompte, Peyton Smith, Kate Valk, and Ron Vawter) have created a series of theatre works that are both televisual and theatrical in scope.
These works deploy film, video, music, dance and written text in a collage form that is heavily dependent on outside media elements and amplified sound for the way they are shaped on stage. White Homeland Commando is the group's first full-length video piece conceived completely outside of a live performance. It revolves around the infiltration of a white supremacist organisation by a special unit of the police and is constructed in a challenging cross-cutting style in which the complex inter-connected plot-lines are developed alongside more familiar TV thriller conventions.
Powerful, provocative and starkly compelling, White Homeland Commando is a highly original and impressive work that makes one look forward to further Wooster Group video productions.
