ENTERTAINMENT IS COMING

“We are not making a movie, we are constructing an organ. An organ you see in a theatre. We press this chord and then the audience laughs, then we press that chord and they gasp, then we press these notes and they chuckle. Some day we wont have to make the movie, we’ll just attach them to electrodes and play the various emotions for them to experience in the theatre.”
— Hitchcock

T- Shirts

Theo Adams Company Limted Edition T-shirts are back in stock for the very final time. This is the last chance to get one. £30- All proceeds go towards the creation of The Theo Adams Company's new production. -With thanks to David Sims and Kate Moross-

 

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Soundtrack

Edited soundtrack highlights of Theo Adams Company's production 'Cry Out...' 

Paper Magazine Interview

“Theo Adams lip-synched his way to the top of the art world.” Paper Magazine    

Photo by Errol Rainey

Theo Adams has a feature in Paper Magazine's Art Issue. Read the interview HERE

ENTERTAINMENT

 

The Watermill Center, NY. © 2009 Lovis Dengler

The Theo Adams Company has been selected for Robert Wilson's Watermill Centre residency program 11/12 season. This will be in support of our new production premiering in 2012.

We can now officially announce the title of our new show........'Theo Adams Company presents... ENTERTAINMENT'.

More news to be announced later this year. All press and sponsorship enquires info@theoadams.com

More Information on the residency here http://watermillcenter.org/residency/adams

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A carefully selected online scrapbook of images and quotes that inspire our work.

Queering Sex

A month ago the curators Sarvia Jasso and Kathryn Garcia organised an amazing project in Downtown Los Angeles called 'Queering Sex' Included was the US Premiere of the Theo Adams Company documentary '9 Days of Cry Out' directed by Toshinori Tanaka.

As part of the project the curators interviewed me about the company's work. Here are a couple of questions:



K: Can you tell us about the importance of the crying woman or the act of crying in general in your work?

Focal to all my work is the extreme element of emotion, the melodrama and the catharsis for both the performers and the audience. To me these releases are paramount, whether its laughter, anger or tears. It’s the most liberating and honest state of being. I work very closely with my performers, we work for months intensively to get to that place where it is no longer a performance and is truly the exposing of the soul while still keeping a high level of stagecraft. It’s a very tricky balancing act but when it works, that’s when I get really excited about what we are doing as a company.


K: Also you've mentioned before the idea of dressing in drag isn't really about drag at all but more about "dressing up" can you explain what you mean by this?

Well I have been wearing dresses and sequins since I learned how to dress myself as a toddler. It was never about ‘dressing as a woman’ at that age, I don’t think I was really conscious that things I wanted to wear were women’s clothes. I wore what I liked, what made me feel comfortable and special. I was lucky that my mother allowed me to express myself and I never felt repressed. It was only as I got older that I began to understand the political and social stigmas that came with the idea of someone with a penis choosing to wear a ball gown. But by that point I just thought people needed to grow up. Me being a precocious 8 year old, I thought I knew better and I still do. The idea that a piece of fabric is given a gender, to me is completely absurd. It’s just cloth!!

Me wearing sequins was not about emulating a woman, it was me expressing myself. It was not a form of transvestism or drag because those notions come with the idea of dressing as ‘the opposite sex’ in some form or another. I don’t identify my self as a man or a woman so the idea of dressing or becoming the opposite sex doesn't apply. Gender to me is a completely fluid and non linear, there is no beginning and no end and therefore no opposite. So me wearing heels is me wearing heels. It’s not a man in heels or a woman in heels, its just Theo Adams wearing some fucking amazing shoes. The End.