This piece is called The Secret Diaries of
Linda Schultz, and it started as a group show
that was travelling the was travelling. If
I can dance I don t want to be part of the
revolution . It s a Dutch foundation initiated,
and they invited me to make a performance.
We are called DIE Now - Dance International
Europe Now.
It all started a year ago. I transformed into
a woman. Before I died, I looked like the
dancer behind me. The night I transformed
into a woman, I fell in love with a woman.
She was simple and she was not.
Blood, smoke, no tears. I don't cry. My hands
are tight. Can I get some green tea, please?
What?
Forget the please. Just green tea.
You look... good.
The play is about John Webber and Linda Schultz.
It is two people who met only one time. The
next morning they wake up and they discover
that their gender has changed from female
to male. All the world has changed its gender.
Hi. I just wanted to say hi to all our supporters.
We re missing only one day to the great revolution.
So come and please join us.
My name is John Webber, and I think I'm a
wannabe liberal activist. I'm confused for
being the person that starts the revolution
which is men turning into women and women
turning into men.
Man and woman together: Oh God!
Can we start again? It's not my best day.
Why, who are you?
Well, who are you?
I asked first.
Well, I asked second.
I will hang up.
It's Linda. Hello?
Linda.
Oh, shit. God. Yes?
Linda, it's me. It s Sylvia.
Man's voice reporting:
Can a psychiatrist distinguish between madness
and sanity? A man called David Rosenheim devised
a dramatic experiment. He assembled eight
people, including himself, none of whom ever
had psychiatric problems.
Keren's work is in general super-layered,
and there s a lot of things that are about
fiction and reality that fuse in a very interesting
way. We have these daily life moves that we
keep doing all the time, and it s this kind
of banality that once you sort of take them
out of there and bring it into another context,
it just becomes, like, super hilarious.
Peep! To make like a peep! I think it s very
funny, and it s something I see every day
because I love the supermarket. Peep!
Peep. Peep. Peep.
& challenge them to send some more day patients,
guarantee they will spot them this time. Rosenheim
agreed, and after a month, the hospital proudly
announced they had discovered 41 fakes. Rosenheim
then revealed he had sent no-one to the hospital.
November 2008. Dear Diary, I told you a few
days ago that you are here for my secrets,
so here is a secret that everyone knows. My
heart was the truth, and my feelings were
secrets, but my body has changed in one night.
There is the silent revolution that is just
happening. People wake up and they are suddenly
transformed into the other gender, and then
there is a second violent revolution that
is just about everybody fighting for the best
jobs. The new men who used to be women are
now in a position of power, and don t allow
anything out of the system to happen anymore.
It's a wild mixture, you know, it's like when
I first read the play and met with Keren and
the other performers, it felt a bit like the
Wizard of Oz meets the West Side Story meets
Sartre.
Do you want to work in the supermarket for
the rest of your life, or do you want to be
a graphic designer? Yes? Or no?
Well, yes.
Well then, this is your chance.
It talks about change, you know, that change
is good and important a lot of the time, but
also it can be dangerous. I guess my character
is an example for that, you know, someone
who is sad and depressed, and who gets a chance,
and then, you know, uses it to fulfil her
own, his own ego trip or whatever.
Huge.
Do that with the right amount of acting. The
rest of the characters will move to the sides
and clear its way to the top of the pyramid,
where he always wanted to be.
What are you doing? I'm every woman.
Shit. Me too.
Everybody likes revolution because it s like
an idea of a change, but... they don t really
believe in revolutions, they are like everything
is a bit of a lie.
