Zoe Onatoye

"Backstage Theatre"

Section MS19, Alison Bartlett

Keywords: casting, history, archive, memory

Birthed from the replica of Trajan’s Column at the Cast Courts, a new experience unfolds. For a moment, we are lured inside, away from the intricate stories of Trajan’s conquest and as spectators invited to join the backstage performance of the interior construction. The materials act on stage engaging in a choreography. Backstage Theatre brings to light with clay and plaster, a narrative of crumbling brick walls and wooden beams: the backstage of Trajan's Column.