only way to achieve the high level of physical and vocal harmony that exists within this play is hours and days and weeks of practice as a unit. In front of a mirror, humming in the bathtub, hitting a note at the same time at the right pitch over and over. The more time the performers can spend together, both in and out of rehearsals, the better.
Another challenge we found when trying to speak in perfect unison was that the cadence and lilt of natural speech tends to flatten out. To work against this, one performer recorded how she would realistically say a line and we both memorized its melody, like learning a song.
To balance the virtuosic and often poetic relationship, the individual sides of Cassandra’s persona should be anything but lyrical. Cassandra is hard. She is cynical. And although choreography exists within each woman’s monologues, the performance style is loose, free, totally candid. The key to this performance also lies in Cassandra’s relationship to the audience, which is direct, personal, and straightforward. She speaks bluntly with no pretense.
The two parts of Cassandra’s brain are their own personalities: unpredictable, undefinable, ever changing. No matter how hard a theatre critic will try to label one as a goody and one as a baddy, one as tame and the other wild, this is simply not the case. Both left and right parts of the brain change their mind constantly.
Mouthpiece does not propose any answers. Our hope is simply that in voicing our extremely personal truths, ones that we so often keep silent, it will leave an audience asking themselves the same tough questions: Why? Why do I speak this way? Why do I dress this way, shave this way, eat this way, joke this way, have sex this way, react this way … ? What is informing these choices and is it coming from my own set of truths? Am I speaking with my own voice?
Characters
Woman Left
Woman Right
Both women are wearing matching white one-piece bathing suits.
The performers remain onstage for the duration of the show.
Setting
The stage is bare except for a freestanding bathtub upstage centre and a vintage microphone downstage right. The tub is illuminated.
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