About

333 is a durational performance lasting for 3 hours and 33 minutes.

Cocooned in cotton-wool, Mayhew hangs suspended from the ceiling as the audience look on. A bag of his own blood drips slowly on to his body. He repeats texts to us about neutrality, responsibility and witnessing. He tells us the story of the death of Frankenstein’s monster and a story about a Second World War Swiss Red Cross volunteer delivering soup to Jewish prisoners heading for the concentration camps.

History

333 developed from a residency at Theatre Arsenique in Lausanne, Switzerland, in which Mayhew lived in a bunker for 333 hours (14 days) in an attempt to answer the question, ‘Who are we as Swiss?” put to him by the promoter. The residency became an investigation of neutrality, of being inside and looking out, of being outside and looking in. The resulting performance piece asks the audience to consider their own status as observers and witnesses to the acts taking place in front of them.

333 has been seen at Contact Theatre, April (2003) in Brisbane & Perth, Australia and at the Le Batie Festival, Geneva, Switzerland (2002)