Last Supper British Premiere
Starting from an idea of eating your own words, your last words, a small performance for 39 people was created. The performance has a very simple construction based on the chapters of the Last Supper 'according to Mathew'. It takes 4 sets of 13 last statements and requests. The last suppers are 13 last meal requests of prisoners on death row.
These meals are very specific; ten are actual meals e.g. chocolate birthday cake with 2/23/90 written on top, seven pink candles, one coconut, kiwi fruit juice, pineapple juice, one mango, grapes, lettuce, cottage cheese, peaches, one banana, one delicious apple, chef's salad without meat with a thousand island dressing, fruit salad, cheese and tomato slices. Three of the last suppers are statements (peace, forgiveness etc). A cast (guest list) that includes: - Victor Hugo, Marilyn Monroe, Franz Kafka, Madonna, Sharon Stone, Noel Coward, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, George Braque, Andy Warhol, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Nelson, the Wicked Witch...
Reckless Sleepers produce theatre, installations, exhibitions and performance projects. The Last Supper is the latest in a series of smaller scale projects, written by Mole Wetherell.
Commissioned by the Time Festival, Gent, this new project was created by Mole Wetherell, Tim Ingram and Pascale Petralia with support from Nieuwpoort Theatre, Gent