PLASTIK PASSION
Performed by Mara Ravins and Erik Hughes, March 31, 1984 at the Zambuki Club (also at Gallery 940 and the Toronto Art Culture Resource Centre). Soundtrack by Mara Ravins. 15 minutes.
This performance is about a woman who indulges in a passionate and loveless affair with a younger man. Original text and excerpts from D.M. Thomas’s The White Hotel are used.
A woman enters wearing all white. To the accompaniment of a soundtrack, she tells a story while slowly removing her coat and scarf to reveal a white plastic dress with venetian blinds over the breasts and in the back. An elegant young man enters and enacts with her a series of banal, romantic tableaus to taped dialogue. As a glass of red wine smashes to the floor, the woman leaves angrily and picks up a microphone to sing a song about plastic passion. She ends the performance by finishing her story, then exiting.
Plastik Passion. Mara Ravins and Erik Hughes.