Dialogue for Two Players

The tellingly titled Dialogue for Two Players also 1984 moves into quasidramatic space in which the seemingly spontaneous relationships are revealed not just as a construct but also as a complex puzzle It implicitly comments on and critiques the confessional modes of video and its illusion of real presence It thus rejects that was at the time a dominant style in artists video turning on its head the simpler versions of the slogan that the personal is political At the same time it is a political work in a different sense questioning the popular TV format of the indepth personal interview which it ironizes As such and with Partridge himself playing the part of interviewerdirector it is his most overt intervention into documentary drama even as he subverts it Al Rees