Hurry sickness

I am thinking about the idea of waiting and waiting for something or someone and being a waiter. I was a waiter once and there was something interesting about the passing of time. Fast when you were busy and slow when you were not. As if it was better being a waiter when you weren't waiting. I like the idea of serving our audience food and the idea of waiting for your food to arrive. There is a point in a conversation where you are distracted by the food either arriving or not arriving. I like the idea of the real time of cooking in performance. I was thinking maybe we should perform to less people at a time but be there for a longer duration as the food is served. Possibly from the kitchens at Clarendon. Possibly from a microwave - the idea of readymade meals. This made me think of Hurry Sickness - the need to do everything fast and cut down the waiting time e.g. putting something in a microwave for 99 seconds instead of a hundred seconds so you spend less time keying in the digits. I think of the waiter in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life waiting for Mr Creosote to explode or taking us on a journey. I think of Manuel from Fawlty Towers and the drunken waiter in Dinner for One (A German film Ildiko will be able to tell us about). I think of Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and the hierarchy of the restaurant. I think of waiting for your dinner guest to arrive. All these ideas are somehow connected and I would like to try and draw them together more during the Readymade Residency.