Trailer – Autumn 2018
Autumn 2018
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Archived Events/ Autumn 2018
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Archived Events/ Autumn 2018 Liz Aggiss
Slap and Tickle
Thu 27 Sep 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+
Maverick, anarchic, indomitable and fearless: all words that have been used to describe performance artist Liz Aggiss. Born in an era when children were seen and not heard, Liz never had a clue what she wanted to do. She just knew she wanted to be seen and heard.
Slap and Tickle is an award winning, dark and ribald physical commentary on cultural mores and sexual taboos: a disorientating display of interpretations and contradictions about women, girls, mothers, bitches and senior citizens. Beating a path through the personal and historical, Aggiss creates a feminist soup that lurches from spoken word to expressionist movement, from music hall to radio nostalgia, from costume change to prop manipulation. SLAP AND TICKLE won a Total Theatre Award Edinburgh Festival 2017. Come on everybody lets have a party!
“The hilarious tickle never undermines the serious slap in this solo – sheer brilliance”
Mary Brennan, The Glasgow Herald
“Slap and Tickle is a pointed and bawdily funny exploration of what it means to refuse to act your age”
Lyn Gardner, theguardian.com
Image credit: Joe Murray
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Archived Events/ Autumn 2018 Ridiculusmus
Give Me Your Love
Thu 4 Oct 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+
Theatre legends Jon Haynes and David Woods of Ridiculusmus are back with a funny, fragile and profound fable based on ground breaking medical research and real-life war testimonies.
Ex-soldier and budding rock star Zach has withdrawn into a cardboard box in a kitchen in West Wales. His friend Ieuan arrives offering recovery – in the form of a capsule containing 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine with which he claims to have successfully treated his own post-traumatic stress.
Parachuted into their recently fractured pasts, Zach and Ieuan swing between dreamboat heroism and woozy enlightenment via a head warping exchange on patriotism, conflict and supermarket shopping that will tickle, move and appal you in equal measure.
“It’s Ridiculusmus at their best”
The Stage
Image credit: Sarah Walker
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Archived Events/ Autumn 2018 Rachel Mars
Our Carnal Hearts
Thu 11 Oct 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+
A Welcome! To you and to me and our spikey, sticky, shameful bits!
With a raucous chorus of original music, award-winning theatre maker Rachel Mars and four belting female singers bring you a gleeful, dark show about the hidden workings of envy. Part symphony, part exorcism, Our Carnal Hearts is a thrilling and murky celebration of desire, competition and all the times we screw each other over. Performed with a surround-sound choral score by Louise Mothersole, Our Carnal Hearts comes to the ShowRoom after sell outs across the UK and US and a Total Theatre Award.
“Wickedly funny… soothing and sharp-edged at the same time” ★★★★
The Stage
“Not just honest… very funny, too, and streaked with regret” ★★★★
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
“Deeply engaging… beautifully blends together mundane normality and phantasmal spectacle” ★★★★
Broadway Baby
WINNER: Total Theatre Award 2017
Image credit: Claire Haigh