The Soul Machine
Dowanhill Church, Glasgow
1991
The final Test Dept Productions event was staged in a strange free presbyterian church decorated by a relative pagan humanist, Daniel Cottier in the mid-nineteenth century. The performance looked at the parallel traditions of corrupt ‘Churchianity’ - the official hierarchical version of Christianity - and the hidden roots of gnosticism, which have run from before the life of Jesus in a straightline to the inheritors of the ‘aurea catena’ in our times such as Jung, Directed by Polish director Mirek Cokur, ex-assistant of Grotowski, it included the incredible gnostic text “Thunder - Perfect Mind” which was translated specially from a Greek/English translation back into Coptic and set to the first Constantine note structures, evoking the atmosphere of the very first sacred hymn structures - the real ones……..
“The Soul Machine is continously thrilling to watch” (The Guardian)
“Imaginative and stimulating… a very involving experience” (The Herald)
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