"GAME SET MATCH"
Physical Theatre by Motheroard
27-30 May 2004
Black Box Theatre, Oslo

Game Set Match is a Motherboard project that was initiated before I was employed in this research program. It has experienced a turbulent history since the first project description was sent as an application for funding in 2001. Initially conceived as a very technological, highly ambitious performance event, production circumstances influenced the development of Game Set Match as a split locational, dramatised tennis match to become a theatre play based on a manuscript developed especially for the piece. To cut a long story short, it is a prime example of bitter-sweet darling killing. The link below will take you to the history of the process of this project as it underwent a dramatical metamorphosis.

Game Set Match - Its history!

If Game Set Match had been realised according to the first project description ....

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.... it would have been very relevant as a work driven by cross sensory mappings and disturbances and cross wired connections between the real and the synthesized. In the form of a theatre play the synaesthetic connections were possibly too subtle, or unclear, to have any significant impact on the output. The play received mixed blessings from the audience and critics. Two critics wrote about the piece and both reviews offered references to the senses from an audience perspective:

(1) "The darkness grows darker and the senses sharper."

(2) "This work invites us to use all our senses."

I could go on analysing Game Set Match from 2001 -2004 (what elements of the original idea in 2001 fed over into the final version in 2004, etc) for ever - but I wish to move forward and let this sleeping dog lie - at least for the time being.