The Cabaret of Necessity
After participating with actions in 2011 and 2012 I felt this was enough for now, but I was talked into participating again by a very persuasive person. Doing yet another action was out of the question so I got the idea that the good old cabaret might be usable. Not the amiable kind of satire everyone finds comfort in these days, but a hardcore cabaret as good as it gets, no sooner said than done. The ambitions were high, yet the number of participants had to be reduced to the three gentlemen listed below, one excellent chapel, a beautiful dancer and a muscular number man. For some people in the audience it was perhaps a bit too crude and my short career as cabaret organizer will probably be a one-off affair. The next People Meeting will have to do without my assistance.
Cabaret featuring Frygtens Kapel consisting of:
Palle Mikkelborg: Trumpet and Flugelhorn Emil de Waal: Drums and electronics August Rosenbaum: Keyboards
Jonathan Bremer: Bass
Mike Sheridan: Cristal Baschet and synthesizer
Number man: Chano Dancer: Emma Håkansson
Economist Christen Sørensen, Philosopher Arno Victor Nielsen, Artist Bjørn Nørgaard
The four acts of the cabaret:
Act 1: The necessary politics
Act 2: Lies and spin
Act 3: The politics of fear
Act 4: The beneficial crisis
The twelve double-signs:
POLITICS IS NECESSARY / NOT THE POLITICS OF NECESSITY
POWER CORRUPTS / POWERLESSNESS NONE THE LESS
SOME ACT TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING / OTHERS ACT TO AVOID SOMETHING
THE SITUATION IS GRAVE BUT NOT HOPELESS / THE SITUATION IS HOPELESS BUT NOT GRAVE
NECESSITY = GOD? / IMAGINATION = HELL?
LIVER OR ADAM / DREAMS AND VISIONS
FEAR AND TREMBLING / WORKS OF LOVE
THE SIMPLICITY OF UTOPIA / ATYPIAS AND MULTIPLICITY
THE ECONOMY RULE THE WORLD / WHO RULE THE ECONOMY?
WHEN THE ECONOMISTS WERE EXPOSED / HOW ADAM WAS EQUIPPED
BLOC POLITICS IS DEAD / ALL POLITICS IS BLOCKED
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION / POLITICIANS INVENT SPIN DOCTOR