Everyone had been expecting a court case today at John Terry's court case into whether or not he is a racist. Instead they were treated to a preview of an original two man show he and Anton have been working on.
Terry read out the opening lines of the play in court today to a rapt audience. 'Anton starts by saying to me 'Are you calling me a black cunt?' and then I says to him, sarcastically, 'You're a black cunt.'
An explosive opening. Without doubt the first lines of a surrealist masterpiece, there's no way it could be mistaken for a defence statement. The themes seem clear. By beginning the conversation with a question that seemingly picks up in the middle of a conversation that has never happened, the pair are making a daring assault on the primacy of cause and effect. That second sentence turns the groundless question into a stonewall fact. It becomes impossible to say who actually called Anton a 'black cunt', a telling comment on how the self may, or may not be, constructed through others. The play continues in this vein. Throughout, the provocative double-act force the viewer to question their understanding of the English language as they hurl abuse at each other in a dialogue that ignores all grammatical norms.
Critics have been quick to hail it as the most challenging piece of surreal theatre to emerge for a century. Terry's life as a mindless football thug is now being reinterpreted as perhaps the definitive statement on the role of the artist in the twenty-first century.
Once this opening run at the Old Bailey is complete the tour will be heading around the country. Get ready to have your grasp of reality completely undermined by this anarchic pair of thinkers.
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