Speak Easy presents Tim Turnbull + Aisle 16
Saturday 14 May : 7.30pm- midnight
£8.00 per evening or £12.00 for the whole weekend : seated
Norwich is leading the country’s new wave of live literature. Performers from the city made a splash at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe and in 2011 the bar will be raised again.
Speak Easy brings together four shows and a range of literary diversions for the Festival faithful. We’ve brought you the brazen, new-media fuelled antics of AISLE16, dismembering Tom Cruise’s Last Barman Poet for the good of all verse; Martin Figura’s haunting Whistle, an exploration of family, tragedy and love; Tim Turnbull’s darkly comic exploration of the horrors lurking within and Molly Naylor’s lyrical and intimate tale of how the 7/7 train bombings unpicked the fabric of her life and how she started stitching it back together again.
With music, literary diversions and late night cavorting, join us at the Speak Easy celebration and feel the force of the Word. Presented by Writers’ Centre Norwich.
TIM TURNBULL’S TALES OF TERROR
“Tim Turnbull doesn’t need gimmicks to scare you: his words are enough. A mixture of poetry, song and storytelling Tim Turnbull’s Tales of Terror presents a variety of chilling and intriguingly macabre material. Darkly seductive Turnbull pulls the audience into a world where everything is slightly askew.
Mythology mixes in with the everyday creating an otherworld where terror and destruction lurks around every corner. The Gods are there in Turnbull’s work, but his preoccupation is clear: destruction and horror lies within rather than outside of ourselves. Repeatedly (as with his look at horrific plastic surgery and a very modern cult of Dionysus) Turnbull fixes his gaze on hedonism and excess, lacing his words with black comedy.
Reading from a book of “Terrible Tales” he narrates a story which twists and turns through psychic horses, evil goats and new age remedies creating the perfect atmosphere of suppressed menace. With supreme confidence Turnbull leaves just enough to the imagination of those listening to properly thrill.”- Corinne Furness for FestMag.com
Tim Turnbull website
THE LAST BARMAN POET
PERFORMED BY AISLE 16
The Last Barman Poet: an evening of writing inspired by the world’s worst performance poem. Using short films, stand-up, mini-lectures, and live performances, Aisle16 explore the poem performed by Tom Cruise in the 1988 movie, Cocktail.
Aisle16 have a history of looking for poetry in unlikely places. From trawling the motorway service stations of Great Britain to forming the world’s first poetry boyband, they have a long-standing obsession with making the unpoetic poetical. So when they stumbled across the worst performance poem of all time, Tom Cruise’s ‘The Last Barman Poet’, it was a mission they couldn’t refuse.
‘Highlights of the spoken word scene’ – Sunday Times. ‘brilliantly, ingenious… the future success of Aisle16 is undeniable’ – Scottish Poetry Review.
Aisle 16 website
Plus DJs in the cafe bar
