The play Jerk divulges an intimate experience of murder, based on true story. Jerk incites us to question our perception of reality. This work can be regarded in continuum with my three previous collaborations with Dennis Cooper; it questions the linear narrative form as a sort of comforting decoy.
Our previous plays dealt with the issue of fantasy-fulfillment, which can take place in the realm of poetical experience, and its fundamental difference from real experience. Jerk is about what happens when the fantasy actually gets lived out. In this play, a real experience ends up shattering the characters, who ultimately embody their confusion.
This form lets us openly tackle the subject of acting out a criminal fantasy in the real world. The play widens the spectrum of reality-experiences proposed in our previous projects, allowing us to bridge the gap between fictional forms and real forms; linear structures and non-linear structures. It thus enables us to undergo the potential realism of the poetic form and the potential artificiality of the apparently realist form.
This question lies at the narrative core of Jerk , in how we experience the relationship with fantasy and reality. Skip to main content. EN IT. Author's statement. The comfort of fake realism. Digita cosa stai cercando. Biennale Teatro. Art Art.
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