Like the everyday rhapsodies it depicts, Chuck Mee’s Daily Life Everlasting eludes easy description. A music-theatre piece made up of 28 brief sequences, each a kind of theatrical molecule — a dance, a poem, a song — the piece values presentness over retrospection. The vibe is rowdy and playfully surreal.
The work stages the ebb and flow of ordinary experience. Moments of solitude, in which performers recite epiphanies about love or passing time, alternate with duets by turns tortured and tender, and raucous group numbers celebrating the ecstasy of belonging.
The urgency is key: Daily life, humdrum in its routines, can feel everlasting — until, suddenly, it’s over.
Daily Life Everlasting is presented by BA(Hons) Musical Theatre level 3 students.
Venue: Flexible Performance Space, Block F Level 1, LASALLE College of the Arts
When: 12 - 14 Nov 2015,
By: LASALLE College of the Arts
