A trilogy of tragedy

The Quiet Life of Nina and Frederick. This is the final presentation in a trilogy of Sway documents about the process of paying homage. And this is the link to the associated video playlist. These are three stories about performers who encounter a crisis.

This pattern of making performance has been an interest, an obsession, a possession, for twenty years. Looking across the three stories, I am looking for what links them.

Irving Pollard, a clown destroyed by war, Jeanine Deckers, a nun ruined by fame, and now Nina and Frederik, the fêted couple who aspired to alternative lifestyles: what does the process of shadowing them reveal

What motivates imitation in the performer? What techniques can be applied? What about the fan - what is this experience of being co-present but estranged from someone you admire?

What new ideas are elucidated by tributes of this kind? What does this process offer to conventional research, if anything? What can we learn about how to live our own lives?

'Nina and Fredrick' as Nina and Frederik, Viborg, 2003 (c) Triangle Theatre, 2020.