
Marcus McKenzie, The Crying Room
26 Dec 2020
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe
I’m on Zoom again. This time it’s not for a meeting or to teach but to watch The Crying Room, a forty-minute livestream performance by artist Marcus Ian McKenzie. In a promotional video for the performance, McKenzie explains that a crying room is “a small room you have at the back of theatres and churches where you can go if you are crying or making noise and you are disturbing a congregation or an audience”. And so, as he eventually points out to us, a crying room is a lot like Zoom.
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