On this episode Jenny Rainsford takes a break from RADA’s rigorous training regime (to which her impeccable elocution is nothing less than a credit and testament) to talk drama, discipline and the compulsion to murder fellow commuters.
As a lot of the content this issue suggests, theatre offers a useful framework for thinking about discipline. Jen’s experience of the thespianisation process brings us around to the (suitably melodramatic) conclusion that discipline’s a kind of haunting or possession, albeit a sometimes beneficial, Freaky Friday-type one.
As always, the discussion’s punctuated and oriented by music. A slew of (more or less tangentially) discipline-related tracks, some of which we discuss, is up on the right. There’s Nike-funded inducements to shape up, Japanese chants, 2-step avowals of addiction and Gothic ballads. Cannibal Corpse’s ‘Discipline of Revenge’ didn’t make the cut though.
Spotify Playlist [link to spotify]
- Black Devil Disco Club-Coach Me
- M.J. Cole feat. Digga – Gotta Have It (M.J.’s Funky Dubb)
- P.J. Harvey – The Piano
- The Siths – Barbarism Begins at Home
- Autechre – LCC
- Throbbing Gristle – Discipline
- LCD Sounsystem – 45:33
- OOIOO – UMA
- Mercston feat. Plaguelero – Weighty
