Tagtool

Live performance at Cafe Oto, London, UK.
Time : 8pm | Tickets : £5

Doubtful Guests is an intermedial stage play involving four artists and musicians. The performance features prepared piano (Philip Zoubek/AT), percussion (Melissa Castagnetto/PE), ink (elffriede/AT) and Tagtool (Maki Dorninger/AT).

The play is structured in three acts, each of which is improvised and brings into being a different character, a doubtful guest, through music, sound and visuals (projected onto multiple surfaces throughout the venue). Its narrative is determined by these unforeseen characters whose development also reflects the unpredictable dimension, mode and behaviour of the collaboration between the musicians and the artists. The play takes motifs from the absurd theatre of Eugene Ionesco (The Chairs) and the stories of American writer and illustrator Edward Gorey (The Doubtful Guest), especially around themes of strangeness, the other and imaginary presence.

Melissa Castagnetto (Peru/UK): Concept, Percussion
Elffriede NL/AT): Live Drawing
Maki Dorninger (AT): Live Drawing
Philip Zoubek (AT): Prepared Piano