Hello everyone!
I’m really looking forward to this week as there is so much stuff to watch that is not to be missed. I think there’s something to watch each day of the week.
I hope you watch something that you love!
Thursdasy 29th April
£6
LOB is a tennis and poetry bonanza about moving through sporting spaces as a queer body, written and performed by Roma Havers. This is one of several films premiering at Queer Contact, featuring different experiences of queer identity.
The Courage To Be Disliked by De Koe
From Tuesday 27th
€10
Every week, a fabulously wealthy woman descends the marble steps of her penthouse, straight into the bubbling underbelly of the city. There she observes, fillets and memorises in detail what she sees, no matter how repulsive. After each trip, she shares her musings: she may be rich, but she is also generous. The Courage to be Disliked is a theatrical monologue about idealism and compensation, about the self-evidence with which the world moulds itself to you if you are rich and privileged, and about the reality that exists beyond that.
For the first time, Natali Broods plays solo at the KOE, in a documentary about a play that is about making a documentary and the KOE has pulled out all the digital stops. Get ready for a brand new genre: the scripted reality one woman livestream making of show. With a camera as an additional character and Brussels as an extra, the cast stands with one leg on your doorstep and the other on stage.
From 26th April
From £2
What will theatre be like in 2036? Take a look.
Watch the world premiere of three exhilarating showcases from the next generation of theatre designers. Working with a team of writers, creatives and performers, the Project 2036 cohort have used design as a starting point for the stories they want to tell.
Devon Muller’s Pawn: Bullied at school for looking Indian. Profiled with his friends by the police for being Black. Jordan’s mixed heritage turns everyday encounters into a game of politics and power. Spoken word and innovative lighting design collide in Devon Muller’s exploration of race and identity, written with Omar Bynon. Directed by Daniel Bailey and filmed live at the Bush Theatre.
QianEr Jin’sOne Day: Can’t sleep. Grab a coffee. Don’t forget Po Po’s funeral flowers. QianEr Jin’s immersive film, written by Kathryn Golding, explores Ashley’s story through the eyes of a mayfly, which lives its whole life in the course of a single day. Directed by Daniel Bailey, with animation by Nicholas Wong and music composed by YingEr Jin.
Latekid’sLimBo: This conceptual music performance video is an interrogation of the ‘self’, racial identity and the anomalies of life, with self produced music and poetry from Latekid (Darius McFarlane) and co-directed by Avenhue. Filmed live at the Bush Theatre.
as british as watermelon by Mandla Rae
Friday 30th April
£6
My name is mandla.
It means power.
I gave it to myself.
mandla rae has a selective memory and they are scrambling to piece together their life. as british as a watermelon questions what it means to belong through exploring mandla’s fragmented asylum and migration memories.
Told through an unflinching autofiction narrative, weaving poetry and storytelling with destruction and colourful chaos, you are invited to join mandla as they rise from the dead and reclaim their misplaced power.
This week, if you enjoyed etude please condiser donating to Journey to the East
A new performance art Symposium-weekend festival to be staged in August 2021 at the CCA Glasgow organised by Artistic Director Jian Yi and rep'd by Storytelling PR (storytellingpr ) – needs your generosity and support in helping to sustain the significant mounting costs of starting up this new performance series built upon engendering social solidarity and new connection in artistic and multicultural/QTPOC communities.
The Symposium weekend proposes an expanded view of Eastern performance practices as the exploration of the unconscious mind, and includes a programme of live performances, music and film screenings, workshops and artist talks. Funds being sought will be used to cover ongoing running costs that have been protracted and made incredibly hard to sustain at present in the COVID-19 situation, specifically in the preparation and upcoming lead-up to the delivery of the festival events that are not nearly covered by our current reach of funds.
Thats all for this weeks folk!
Hope you have a good one and be safe
Josh x