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Yoko & Me

The image is projected onto the stage. John Lennon appears cut because there are several levels of wall that block complete projection onto the farthest wall, breaking the image up and making parts of his body appear closer or farther than others. The projection is shaky, so the image looks as though it is blinking. The sounds of televisions and changing channels are heard. Coloured light and sound convey the televisions' presence. Two minutes pass. A man and a woman dressed and styled like the image sit and pose as the image. The projected image is still present. The begin to talk to each other:

John: "I just believe in Yoko and me."
Yoko: "I just believe in Yoko."
John: "And me?"

The end.

Using Jameson's notion of pastiche, a heavy allusion is made to these people and this line. The line undergoes two series of transformations in this scene, altering the sentence's meaning during the process but keeping the exact syntactical structure of the sentence and therefore challenging concepts of meaning through context and time. Multiple media forms are used and a self-consciously aware allusion to common styles of postmodern theatre is made present by the televisions.