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Dido (2003)
For double bass, voice & slide projector
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Cristin Wildbolz during the première in The Hague
photos: Patriez van der Wens
Instrumentation: double bass (best played by a woman in her midlife crisis), voice & slide projector

Duration: ± 15 minutes

Concept, text & music: Mayke Nas

First performance: 10 oktober 2003 in the Boiler-house of Theater/Swimmingpool 'de Regentes' in The Hague

Written for: Cristin Wildbolz

Commissioned by: Werkplaats De Suite

Staged by: Adelheid Roosen

Original text: Dutch

Translations available in: English, French and German

First text block:
(SPOKEN LINES / projected lines)

IT STARTS QUITE SIMPLE
It ends quite simple

MILK, FLOWERY WALLPAPER AND MUSIC ON A STRING
The scent of piss, flowery wallpaper and 16 channels

MY MOTHER BATHES ME
My son bathes me

SENT BY EVOLUTION
On call

OUT OF LOVE
For money

AS A PLOT AGAINST DECAY
As snakes and ladders against Sundays
Dido pictures a woman in the midst of her life, reflecting outloud on her past, while her future is mirrored on handwritten slides that are being projected on a wall (or screen) behind her like temporary graffiti. It shows the possible consequences of her personal history and how her life might evolve.