They are made out of meat

Terry Bisson’s absurdist text They’re Made Out of Meat is adapted by Bronwyn Lace and performed inside the Pepper’s Ghost in this two-hander by Katlego Letsholonyane and Sello Ramalahloane.

Drifting through the endless reaches of space and orbited by yawning, bellowing mouths, two extraterrestrial characters discuss their encounter with the strange, carbon-based life forms they’ve come to classify as sentient meat – humans. 

Here, the short, sharp text is reimagined with some local, anecdotal flair, and comes alive inside the Pepper’s Ghost in new ways. In the context of Activating the Archive, it becomes a performance that speaks to the remote and anthropologically centred ways in which archival footage and materials are often engaged.  

CONCEPTUALISER | Bronwyn Lace
DRAMATURG | Phala Ookeditse Phala
PERFORMERS | Katlego Letsholonyana, Sello Ramolahloane & Chorus
TEXT | They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson  
​THE CENTRE FOR THE LESS GOOD IDEA