Wot? No Fish!!

This is theatre of life. A story told by one man about his great uncle and aunt and their two children.   It cannot be re-performed by someone else because the story belongs uniquely to the teller. Nor can it be fully translated to a more permanent video medium. This is sad, because the story is one of rare personal insight of the artist into human family truth. I cannot think of many other people who have been so lovingly honest about about spousal and offspring relationship -pictures and sometimes captions.


Photo: Jamie Williams/Sydney Festival

In Danny's, (the performer) own words" After months of trawling through my discovery of Great Uncle Ab's wage packet artworks, I'd selected about 70 pictures...it was the story of a typical East London Jewish family...during the Blitz and aspiring to move to the promised land of the leafy suburbs around Golders Green...it was also the story of an undiscovered artist. Always inflected with irony and humour , I took a journey through Celie and Ab's most intimate moments...
"Abe Solomons did not make his art to be either  placed in a gallery or to inspire a piec eof theatre. My strong  feeling is that he made his art because he was compelled to: to make sense of life..."everyone's ordinary life is actually extraordinary, and by sharing it we all get to know ourselves a little bit better."
 

     

There is however one possibility of another medium for preserving a glimpse of the story, and that is a blog. Here is a link to a real blog that gives some moments not shared in the theatre:
https://wotnofish.wordpress.com/wot-no-blog/

The performance will be at Malthouse until 8 March. Opportunity of a lifetime.