Hey everyone!
For the first time ever I have a show to plug! Look! I do art too! It’d mean the world to me if you had a watch.
There’s loads of great things to catch this wek and I hope you enjoy!
Thursday 22nd April
Pay what you can
The planet is decaying at a steady rate. Glaciers are collapsing as crops are drying up, and the world gets warmer every day.
BEARS is an invitation to watch the world crumble as three bears sniff away at its carcass. It is a wordless piece; a self-destructive, visceral excavation of our role in climate change.
Powder Keg received the Hodgkiss Award 2017 to make BEARS, which was presented at the Royal Exchange Studio Theatre in July 2017.
NOTEW : this is the one i made with my friends 👀
Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th April
From €8
At the beginning of this international piece development was the confrontation with an egregious quote from Franz-Josef Strauss from the context of his friendship with the former Togolese President Gnassingbé Eyadéma: "We blacks have to stick together!" A skewed picture that paints a cohesion between the black-conservative ruled Bavaria and the former German colony Togo and conceals power relations, economic interests and the political situation in a rule that lasted decades. A quote as a symptom of repressed colonial guilt and post-colonial entanglement in Germany, which is only just beginning to come to terms with. A statement that needs to be replied.
Can we still speak of encounter, dialogue, and solidarity from here, and how? Developed in an exchange between Togolese artists and a team from the Münchner Kammerspiele, the documentary-fictional mash-up of drama, puppet show, comic and film tells the journey through time of a futuristic ghost hunter. It exposes colonial phantoms and pursues them to the present day.
From Wednesday 21st until Sunday 25th April
Pay What You Feel from £10
“We have fallen upon evil times and the world has become very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their parents.”
- King Naram Sin of Chaldea - 3800 BC
One actor, one spectator. A series of questions and tasks. An opportunity to find out whether you have the potential to join TM.
Today, a secret cell of our movement has executed a successful worldwide operation. We hold the victory in our hands and our overwhelming march is on the rise. We will triumph and fight the infidels. Our brothers and sisters are among you. Inconspicuous. Invisible.
We are many.
We are global
We are TM™
Lesbian Space Crime by Airlock Theatre
Monday 19th April
Free
In August 2019, NASA astronaut Anne McClain was accused of accessing her estranged wife’s bank account while aboard the International Space Station. Now everyone knows that she is a massive lesbian.
This is the dawn of space crime and a new era for queer representation. Is she truly a criminal… or a hero? Thankfully, she’s not from one of 73 Earth-countries where she would be a criminal for being gay at all.
Isolated up in space, Anne’s left suddenly representing all the Earth-queers. Meanwhile, she just wants to get on with the first ever all-female spacewalk, as long as NASA packed enough of the lady-sized suits (spoiler: they forgot. Yes, IRL).
In a brutal constellation of bad times, Anne still has to go through an Earth-space break up. She’s divorcing the mother of her son, the woman who outed her to planet Earth, and the queen of all Geminis.
Thursday 22nd April
Free
Emotional resilience describes the ability of a person or a group of people to recover from a traumatic experience and thrive after it. In Bounce the individuals are exploring sensorial responses to effect emotional state and develop tools and systems of endurance. Hovering around emotional spaces of uncertainty and pressure, the performers are relying to their own senses to seek for relations of support, care and empowerment.
Bounce is an embodied and embedded process towards an ecology of perception, that is, the way the activity of our senses functions to bind our separate nervous systems into the encompassing environment and thrive – or in other words: to bounce back.
Addy Gets a Childhood by Kim Mayo
Thursday 22nd April
Free
addy gets a childhood is a poem, video, pleasure & reclamation project created by poet/musician/composer/artist kim mayo, aka moonheart. 'addy' reimagines the life of the (until recently) only black American Girl Doll, Addy Walker, whose white creators saw a black doll & called her an enslaved child, a child who had to escape that, a child who was not afforded what should have been her birthright, had she not been born into this anti-black, imperialist, white supremacist, hetero-patriarchal, capitalist world-a childhood. This project seeks to give to Addy all of the joy, the pleasure, the play, the freedom, the candies, the safety, the rambling afternoons, the delights of childhood that she was not afforded. It is a blessing sent back to mayo's baby ancestors, & one sent toward the future, where mayo envisions a world in which each black child is allowed to be one.
This week, you can kind of give money to something I’m linked too! The theatre company my friends and I founded are calling in quits and we’re giving all of our money away. We decided to fundraise to make the pot a little bigger. Please do consider dropping a couple of quid into the fund if you have enjoyed etude in the past.
Have a click here
Thinks have been very emotional recently and I’ve had LCD Soundsytems “lest ever gig” on repeat whilst the goodbye bit in Emergency Chorus’s Landcape echoes in the distance. I don’t know why we look at goodbyes with sadness. I’m feeling a lot of reilef recently, sadness is mixed in with that mind you, with my goodbyes. It feels like a chapter has closed and whatever is next is just begining.
I saw this note from Mr Rodgers today
These are kind of empty, diary scribbling thoughts but i’ve always found solisce in writing things down and throwing them out online without much thought.
Have a good week and talk soon
Josh x