True Love Starts from a Divorce
Nature’s Divorce from Coca-Cola
My performance uses object theatre to critique capitalist exploitation of nature, centring on Coca-Cola, a representative ocean-polluting capitalist company. The performance is an adaption of the Shakespearean love comedy - the Taming of the Shrew, which tells the story of a man called Petruchio taming the rebellious woman, Katherina into a compliant wife. In my adaptation, the story metaphorises humans’ domestication of nature. Petruchio is played by the Coca-Cola factory puppet, and Katherina is played by the Coca-Cola beverage as it is a domesticated form of nature including water and agricultural ingredients. However, my narrative subverts the Shakespearean storyline by focusing on Katherina’s (nature) DIVORCE from the capitalist factory Petruchio.