New Performance
Saturday 30 June : 7.30pm
All tickets £8.00 : seated
An evening of new work, with special guest Richard Layzell.
Also performing will be artists all supported by Arts Council England through Escalator Performing Arts: Ira Brand, John Boursnell, Tatty-Del and Holly Rumble.
PLEASE NOTE: Performances START at 7.30pm
Richard Layzell: Key Notes
Key Notes is an on going performance work that explores, critiques and satirises the place, status and context of public speaking: from the troops-rousing corporate address to the jovial and benign tones of the father of the bride, to the behavioural peculiarities of the academic lecture.
More information on Richard Layzell
Ira Brand: A Cure For Ageing
A piece about years, growth, and the passing of time; about the physical, mental and emotional experience of getting older, and how our age does or does not define us.
Ira is a performer, writer and theatre-maker, working across theatre and live art. She is a solo artist and core member of collaborative performance groups, Tinned Fingers and Antique Women.
Review of Ira Brand at Sprint Festival
John Boursnell: 5 Actions/ 5 Texts/ 5 Songs
Repeated actions, singing, cassette-looping, ball bearing-dropping and polaroid-photograph-taking to produce patchworks of quiet sounds.
More information on John Boursnell
Tatty-Del: Tatty-Del Are Making It Work
A performance of re-enactments and life theatre from friends/ collaborators tatty-del about success, friendshop, perserverance and human worth.
It is summer. Hana sits at a table in the café of the Royal Festival Hall. She has her notebook out on the table in front of her.
Natalie arrives.
[We have been best friends for five years. We have crossed America together. We have made home in a ski lodge on a farm. We have written each other stories]
Hana gets up to buy paper cups of Earl Grey. Natalie is awkward.
[We are planning to make a performance together. We will write lists, draw diagrams and imagine ourselves on stage together. We will be successful]
Hana returns. Natalie explains that it is not going to happen. She is going away for a while. She doesn’t think they would be able to pull it off anyway.
Hana gets down on one knee. Other customers stare. Natalie agrees to go to couples counselling. Natalie stays.
tatty-del are Natalie Clarke and Hana Tait. They have been working together officially and unofficially, successfully and unsuccessfully, since meeting at art college in 2006.
Holly Rumble: An Audio Guide To Varo’s Harmony
A playful investigation into the musical potential of natural objects.
What does harmony actually sound like? Join artist Holly Rumble as she attempts to investigate the musical clues in Varo’s painting ‘Harmony’.
Remedios Varo was a Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter. Her painting ‘Harmony’ shows a figure arranging objects on a musical stave, including shells, stones, diamonds, mathematical figures, and a turnip. Holly Rumble will systematically investigate the musical potential of each of these objects, using live pseudo-scientific experimental techniques.
A work in development, originally devised as a performance lecture for the ‘Surreal Friends’ exhibition at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich.
More information on Holly Rumble
All Escalator artists are supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
