Hello everyone!
I’m on Holiday this week so let’s just jump straight into this weeks listinings!
One Front of the Other by Caitlin Gleeson
Available now
Free
What do you think of when you think of walking? Hiking through a forest? Ambling around your local park with a friend? Popping to the shops in the rain? Marching through the streets with a placard, shouting?
In March 2020, like many people, Caitlin was really poorly with covid. She’s still not back to normal but one of the things that’s kept her going ever since has been walking.
One Foot In Front of The Other is a series of four short audio pieces about walking. Join Caitlin to reflect on what walking has been like over the last year or so – how it’s changed, how it’s been painfully unchanging, and some of the things she’s seen, heard and found out along the way. As you listen, go out for a walk or a roll or a sit, or stay where you are and come on a walk with her instead.
Contains mild adult language.
I Have To Repeat Myself One More Time I’m Going To by Clara Potter Sweet & Eve Allin
Monday 31st
Free
This is for everyone who couldn’t make it to the end of their sentence.
If I Have To Repeat Myself One More Time I Am Going Toisa digital experiment, a 6-hour livestream which bears witness to Joan of Arc’s story as it is spoken and spoken over, written and rewritten.
Sit with us. Have patience. Listen as we speak our way through her life and (cultural) afterlife. Stay with us. This is a eulogy/testimony/life story that meanders, imagines, does somersaults with the truth, and flits between fact and fiction in an attempt not to yield the mic.
This work is a digital ghost of Saint Somebody,a theatre piece in development exploring similar themes.
If I Have To Repeat Myself One More Time I’m Going To will be made available on-demand for one week after the initial live stream. A link to the stream will be sent to the email you book with no later than 60 minutes before the initial live stream is due to begin.
Always Already by Karen Christopher and Tara Fatehi Irani
3rd June
Free
Always Already is an 8-hour performance installation. You’re invited to drop in and out over the 8 hours and also to see what gathers in the penultimate hour (5 till 6pm) where there is a performance embedded within the duration, using materials, text, sound and movement to explore the weaving together of plant, human and machine.
Through the act of performance, the two performers make a machine which assembles the performance — a machine constructed of 100 Forgotten Questions, which turns the room into a loom, and creates a space for the performance.
The 8-hour scale references the length of a working day. Weaving revolutionised the textile industry in the early 1800s, and subsequently influenced the early development of computing. The binary foundations of computing can be related to the loom’s warp and weft. These histories significantly affect the ways we live and interact, but often go unnoticed — they inform the project’s foundation. More about the research can be found here.
The Great Gatsby by The Wardrobe Ensemble
Available now
From £5
Invited to an extravagant party in a Long Island mansion, young bachelor Nick Carraway is intrigued by the flamboyant host, Jay Gatsby; a self-made, self-invented millionaire with a mysterious past. As the two strike up an unlikely friendship, a cocktail soaked story of memory, money and lost love unfolds.
Founded in Bristol in 2011, this year marks a decade for both The Wardrobe Ensemble and The Wardrobe Theatre, an anniversary we’re celebrating with this exciting new collaboration. Adapted within the grips of an international pandemic, The Great Gatsby is a witty, creative new co-production from the people who brought you Education, Education, Education, The Last Of The Pelican Daughters, 1972: The Future of Sex, (The Wardrobe Ensemble) and Drac & Jill, Oedipuss In Boots, Rocky Shock Horror (The Wardrobe Theatre).
8 Tender Solitudes by Fevered Sleep
31st May until 6th June
Free
8 Tender Solitudes was created in collaboration with seven extraordinary dancers, each performing alone. Featuring a soaring score by composer Kate Whitley, it’s made from yearning and sensuality, anger and frustration, grief, memory and love.
Over the last year, we’ve had to learn new ways to connect with our friends and our loved ones. We’ve met each other at a distance, but rarely skin to skin. We’ve become fearful of breath, hugging and intimacy, and we’ve thought we might never be touched again.
When we’ve lived like this for so long, can touch ever be the same?
Bit of a change this week. If anyoen wants to support me and etude then you can chuck a couple of quid over to my ko-fi page.
Thanks again for reading and please do share with your mates!
Talk soon
Josh xx