Hey everyone!
How are you this week?
Below is this weeks selection. I hope there is something you find that you really enjoy
Thursday 30th September
£4
A performance about digital e-generation, for whom virtual space becomes more important than life. Inspired by Greek myths and real events. Kore, a contemporary e-girl, runs away from her chronically sick mother – Demeter, into the world of Internet posts and streams. Together with Narcissus, whom she’s met online, they dream of death. When the teenager’s virtual fantasies manifest in real life, the Greek gods get involved. Will the water from Lete – the river of unmindfulness, cure their pain?
STREAM is a story about loss, understood as a tragedy, but also as a change. Passing away, vanishing, veneration and keeping the dead in our memories are the universal human experiences. What forms do they take in the digital era? How does the contemporary man/woman go through the rite of goodbye? How does he/she cope with the emptiness and oblivion?
The play draws dramatic material form the story of a mythological goddess Demeter, whose daughter – Kore is abducted by Hades, when the girl bends down to pick a narcissus flower in Enna. It also refers to contemporary acts of violence – e.g. an incident that took place in 2019 in Utica (New York), where a twenty-year-old Brandon Clark murdered Bianca Devins, an eighteen-year-old e-girl, and posted photo evidence on Discord. Mythical themes are reflected here in the virtual spaced and the opposite – Facebook and Instagram phenomena fit perfectly in the stream of the ancient universe.
NOTE : This is one of my favourite shows of the year. I can not reccomend this enough.
Look, No Hands by Lila Clements
from Monday 27th September
£13
Wind in my hair. Homeward bound. Eyes on the evening ahead.
Collision 15:26.
When Vee embarks on her cycling commute, she has no idea she’ll never make it home. Appearing in a Nightingale Court to face the driver - suffering from amnesia, armed only with her hospital notes, a surprise appearance on 24 Hours in A&E and a bag of ripped clothes - she tries to piece together what happened to her that day.
But what she can’t work out is why something so awful… can make her feel so fantastic. And if that was dying. What is this? What is this magic?
An uplifting story of hope and survival, this new one-person play explores the female cycling experience and the phenomenon known as Post Traumatic Growth. Made in partnership with female cycling club Velociposse, Look No Hands is inspired by a real-life cycling collision experienced by actor and writer Lila in 2010.
The Anxious Mansion by Gareth Cutter
archive
free
'The Anxious Mansion' is a live performance, developed for and delivered over Zoom, bringing into play music, narration, audio description, shadow puppets and multi-camera filming. Gareth explains: “It’s a 35 minute experiment in ‘digital gig theatre’ about someone alone in their room, with just their electronic devices for company, seeing the world - and being seen - through a screen."
Transfiguration by Olivier De Sagazan
free
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The human face has not yet found its face and it is up to the painter to give it ..." Antonin Artaud
Transfiguration's performance is the story of the sculptor's never satisfied desire to give life to his creation. "In a gesture of despair, I immerse myself in clay with my own body, to give life to the work. I sculpt on my head strange masks moving according to my feelings, erasing my identity and becoming a living work of art, between puppet and puppeteer. This blind work forces me to look inside myself in order to reveal the different identities that possess me. Over-modeling, piercing, erasing are required with increasingly thick layers of clay, producing a sort of transition from the "Holy Face" to the "Meat Head". It is a ritual where the hands dance on the face faster than the thought and bring out intimate and deep perceptions. This solo work can evolve in two, the objective remains the same, but something of our relationship to the other then also is as trans-figured. I am flabbergasted to see how normal people think it is to be alive. My whole goal is to account for the very strangeness of being there. The disfigurement in art is for me a means, by the very power of the images that can appear, to reach this awareness ”
You Jump, I Jump. Remember? Sisters From Another Mister
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NOTE : I mainly sharing this to bring attentionto the great work that HOAX do and that you can help support them make more excellent work in the future!
and a cheeky plug
Friday 1st & Saturday 2nd October
€4
Sunday Morning is a walking tour of the internet which takes audiences through the history of trespass and asks how we can occupy digital spaces in similar ways. An invitation to inhabit the internet with dissenting intent, to claim dead websites and squat them to create new spaces for protest and organising.
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Take care
Josh xx