Dada Kamera: Performance Response

IN ON IT
Performance Response

Dada Kamera’s performance In On It showcased in the Fresh Terrain Festival is a powerful performance of two gay men, This One and That One, who are working on play within a play. The play they are working on is the story of a man who has just found out that he is terminally ill and only has a short time to live. He tries to tell his son who shuts him out. He tries to tell his wife, and she leaves him for another man. In the end, just before he drives his “blue Mercedes Benz” into oncoming traffic, he leaves his life insurance policy to the wife and son of the man who left with his wife. This One and That One are victims of the “accident” because one of them is driving the car that the man hits, leaving the other to tell the tragic story. The play confronts issues of relationships, both homosexual and heterosexual. These two cultures collide in the end - literally. Although it is merely by chance, it still points out the conflicted intersectio...