“Fill Me Up” – developed 2009, last performed 2012

Fill Me Up is a 15 minute piece of object theatre for adults (sex happens) performed with Jamie Ashby and developed with Ashby and Dahlia Katz. Using surprise and humour, Fill Me Up explores loneliness, intimacy, and transformation. The focus conceptually is the fluidity of the imagination. The set up for the piece is choreographed like a dance, with tactics and sensibilities taken from stage magic.

Everything seems mundane; just two people setting things up. Then, instead of a theatrical curtain raising, the narrative simply begins out of this dance. The work then weaves between abstraction and literalness of narrative: in front of the audience, glass-ware is filled with coloured water and animated to “become” a scene at a singles bar. There is no text besides the words “glass,” “metal,” and “Martini,” and with these words all personality and longings are conveyed. The water is drunk by the performers from the glasses when the characters “exit,” rendering the objects as glasses once more, and creating humour as the performers become wet and full. There is quite a bit of splashing.