Ethel
Ethel
Live Interactive Documentary Performance (2007)
Created with Ethel Greenbaum, 89 years old.
Viewers enter a room where Ethel sits quietly at a dining table. Raising her hand, the table becomes a projection surface. Her movement triggers snippets from her life story. The audience is invited to use their hand movement to hear additional stories.
The memorabilia of Ethel’s life fades away. Ethel stands & for the first time directly addresses the audience:
We’re all human beings. We’re all one. You have to keep your spirits up. Without love a person cannot live. Its just beautiful to be here and see this crowd of people. Young ones and an old one like me and a middle-aged one and a baby that is the most precious thing of all. I see every color here, every nationality here, and that’s what this world needs. Love in many many ways. You can love a husband. Partners can love each other. You can love an animal but the basic thing of a life is to love and be loved by a human being and to love them in return
Ethel thanks the audience for attending and passes out chocolates and copies of a love letter she wrote to her late husband.
Please also see Belle, Al, Turing Machine
Created (program/camera/edit) by Ruth Sergel
Performer Ethel Greenbaum
Thank you Fay Greenbaum & Luke DuBois.
ITP Spring Show 2007
Created (program/camera/edit) by Ruth Sergel
Performer Ethel Greenbaum
Thank you Fay Greenbaum & Luke DuBois.
ITP Spring Show 2007